The Madman and the Nun and The Crazy Locomotive: Three Plays (including The Water Hen}

by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Book Overview

MADMAN AND THE NUN AND THE CRAZY LOCOMOTIVE

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093683983X
• ISBN13: 9780936839837
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Applause Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

For anyone not familiar with Witkiewicz's work a fine intro.

Not as thoroughly satisfying as Gerould's Madman And The Nun And Other Plays By Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, this books sandwiches the playwright's crowning achievement (The Water Hen) between his two most accessible works (Madman And The Nun and Crazy Locomotive). Nothing really new here, but since other English editions of Poland's greatest 20th century playwright are currently out of print, this slender volume should be considered indespensible. I just wish the publishers saw fit to include more. As for Gerould's translations, they are quite splendid, of course, as well they should be since they have occupied the greater part of this dramaturgical scholar's life.