Cockroaches: A Comedy in One Act (1893)
Witkacy wrote this play at the age of
eight.
Peter: Here you are talking and
the gray thing is coming closer. It's a cloud of cockroaches!
Priest: How do you know?
Peter: I looked through my telescope.
extract, tr. Daniel Gerould, from
The Witkiezicz Reader (Northwestern University Press, 1992) |