Insatiability
≈ 2 min read
Names in other languages
- EnglishInsatiability
- EspañolInsatiability
- cyNienasycenie
- NederlandsNienasycenie
- PolskiNienasycenie
Article bodies are English and are not machine-translated. A name in another language is not a translation of the article.
Insatiability ( ) is a speculative fiction novel by the Polish writer, dramatist, philosopher, painter and photographer, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy). Nienasycenie was written in 1927 and was first published in 19301. It is Witkiewicz's third novel, considered by some to be his best. The novel consists of two parts: Przebudzenie (Awakening) and Obłęd (The madness).
Insatiability ( ) is a speculative fiction novel by the Polish writer, dramatist, philosopher, painter and photographer, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy). Nienasycenie was written in 1927 and was first published in 1930. It is Witkiewicz's third novel, considered by some to be his best. The novel consists of two parts: Przebudzenie (Awakening) and Obłęd (The madness). ==Summary== The novel takes place in the future, circa 2000. Following a battle, modeled after the Bolshevik revolution, Poland is overrun by the army of the last and final Mongol conquest. The nation becomes enslaved to the Chinese leader Murti Bing. His emissaries give everyone a special pill called DAVAMESK B 2 which takes away their abilities to think and to mentally resist. East and West become one, in faceless misery fueled by sexual instincts. Witkiewicz's Insatiability combines chaotic action with deep philosophical and political discussion, and predicts many of the events and political outcomes of the subsequent years, specifically, the invasion of Poland, the postwar foreign domination as well as the totalitarian mind control exerted, first by the Germans, and then by the Soviet Union on Polish life and art. ==Influence== Stanisław I. Witkiewicz's's novel Insatiability was considered by Czesław Miłosz in his The Captive Mind: "Chapter I: The Pill of Murti-Bing" discusses Insatiabilitys DAVAMESK B 2 pills, which deaden the intellect and soul, like Marxism-Leninism according to Miłosz. ==Translation into English== S. I. Witkiewicz's novel 'Insatiability' was translated into English in 1977. Full text of Nienasycenie in Polish. Part one: Przebudzenie. Part two: Obłęd. Cyfrowa Biblioteka Narodowa "Polona".
Text derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376930881 under CC BY-SA 4.0; modifications have been made.