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Utwór z centralną postacią tyrana – tytanicznego bohatera charakterystycznego dla dramaturgicznej twórczości Witkacego – tytułowego Gyubala Wahazara; jest studium władzy odbitym w krzywym zwierciadle. Zawiera elementy karykatury społecznej, satyry na władzę, religię i ustrój społeczno-polityczny.
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Gyubal Wahazar, czyli Na przełęczach bezsensu (translated into English as Gyubal Wahazar, or Along the Cliffs of the Absurd: A Non-Euclidean Drama in Four Acts) (1921) Kurka Wodna (1921) (Translated into English as The Water Hen )
The effect of theater in the surrealistic mode is to surprise, dis concert, provoke, puzzle, and disturb. Both Georges Ribemont-Des saignes' L'Empereur de Chine (The Emperor of China) and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz's Gyubal Wahazar, czyli Na przeleczach bezsensu.
In Gyubal Wahazar, Witkiewicz uses these same elements in a rather different and much more complex way. Gyubal himself, although in possession of some magical superhuman strength, does not fit Frazer's definition of a magician. He is god-like, existing in "another spiritual dimension."12 Unlike Frazer's magician, he feels he is beyond the
Of his surviving plays (at least twenty out of a total of forty or more), the most notable in this vein include the Dystopian fantasy Gyubal Wahazar, czyli Na przeleczach besensu ["Gyubal Wahazar, or Along the Cliffs of the Absurd"] (written 1921; in coll 1962), Mątwa, czyli Hyrkaniczny światopogląd ["The Cuttlefish, or The Hyrcanian World ...
This volume contains seven of Witkiewicz’s most important plays: The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, Dainty Shapes and hairy Apes, and The Beelzebub Sonata, as well as two of his theoretical essays, “Theoretical Introduction” and “A Few Words about the Role of the Actor in the Theatre of Pure F...
