In Witkacy's plays, or what he himself called his 'comedies with corpses', characters die and then return to the stage as if nothing had happened.

Witkacy, too, lives in a perpetual state of rediscovery: he fades in and out of style. His reputation is constantly being reborn or challenged. Was he a genius? Or a fraud?

'Witkacy belongs to those creative artists who despite even considerable popularity during their lifetimes must be forgotten and discovered all over again after many years because Witkacy's popularity was connected rather with the eccentricities in his life and with what in his creative work was least valuable - and not with his enduring achievements in the realm of ideas and artistic creation... It will take many years for the legend still alive today to die out, connected as it is to his character and only then will it be possible to find the true value of his work.'

Boleslaw Micinski, 1941-42

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