Title

Witkacy’s Amusia

Authors

Tomasz Bocheński, University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Polish Philology, Chair of Polish Literature of the 20th and 21st CenturyFollow

Abstract

Witkacy suffered from amusia as a child and as an adult person. He was seriously interested in music only for a little over twenty years (1890–1914?). He wrote his main works as an amusic. The relation between amusia and metaphysical feelings may suggest that Witkacy wrote dramas and created painting compositions in order to evoke the lost strangeness of being. Amusia could have also been the reason for Witkacy’s ambiguity – he was defending and degrading high art at the same time.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.38.02

Keywords

Witkacy, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, amusia

References

Degler Janusz, Witkacego portret wielokrotny. Szkice i materiały do biografii 1918–1939, PIW, Warsaw 2009.

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Witkiewicz Stanisław Ignacy, Dzieła zebrane, vol. XIX: Listy do żony (1923–1927), prepared for publication by A. Micińska, J. Degler (ed.), PIW, Warsaw 2005.

First Page

27

Last Page

33