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    Insatiability

    Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Author), Louis Iribarne (Translated by)

    9780810111349

    Paperback / softback, published 30 September 2012

    534 pages
    23.5 x 16.5 x 3.3 cm, 0.748 kg

    "Magnificent." --Susan Sontag
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    "There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered." --Witold Gombrowicz

    This novel, the author's masterpiece, is one of the greatest expressions ever of the tortured intersection of political and personal destinies in Eastern Europe. Futuristic, experimental, and remarkably prophetic, Insatiability traces the adventures of a young Pole whose fate parallels the collapse of Western civilization following a Chinese communist invasion from the east. Written in 1927, Witkiewicz's anti-Utopian novel proved to be a horribly prescient vision of what would become reality for Eastern Europe in the late 1930s.

    Part One: The Awakening
    The Awakening
    Soirée at the Princess di Ticonderoga's 
    A Visit with Tenzer
    A Visit to Prince Basil's Retreat
    Sexphyxiation
    The Return, or Life and Death
    Demonism
    Domestic Affairs and Destiny

    Part Two: Insanity
    School
    A Meeting and Its Consequences
    A Repeat Performance
    A Commander's Thoughts and the Little Theater of Quintofron Crepuscolo
    Torchures and the Debut of the "Gent from Below"
    A Battle and Its Consequences
    The Final Metamorphosis
    The Wedding Night
    The Last Convulsion

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