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  title info:
    title: Narcotics
    sub title: Nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, peyote, morphine, ether + appendices, including selections from Farewell to autumn
  title info:
    title: Nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, peyote, morphine, ether + appendices
  title info:
    title: Nikotyna, alkohol, kokaina, peyotl, morfina, eter + appendix. English
  name:
    name part: Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy
    name part: 1885-1939
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: artist.
  name:
    name part: Gauger, Soren A.
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xr
    date issued: 2018
    edition: First edition in hardcover.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: pol
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 166 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm
  abstract: "In the vein of the well-known drug writings of De Quincey and Baudelaire from a century earlier and those of his contemporaries Walter Benjamin and Jean Cocteau - and foreshadowing the later writings of Aldous Huxley and Carlos Castaneda on psychoactive drugs - Witkacy composed Narcotics in 1930 to discuss and document not only his own experimentation with different substances but the nature of addiction itself and the prevailing social attitude toward drugs, particularly those that were considered "acceptable." As life became increasingly mechanized, Witkacy felt that a sense of the metaphysical could only be achieved by artificial means, and like Henri Michaux, he produced an extensive oeuvre of singular visual art while under the influence of a variety of substances. Witkacy dissects Polish society and the art world as well as himself via the hypocrisy surrounding drug use. Since it was first published in the 1930s, Narcotics has achieved a cult status in Poland where it is considered both a modernist classic and a paragon of Witkiewiczian madness. This edition, the first complete translation in English, includes a second appendix written later, passages from the novel Farewell to Autumn, and 34 color reproductions of a cross section of portraits to show how various substances impacted Witkacy's art."--Dust jacket.
  note: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ; translated from the Polish by Soren A. Gauger.
  note: "Originally published in Polish as: Nikotyna, alkohol, kokaina, peyotl, morfina, eter + appendix (Warszawa : Drukarnia T-wa Polskiej Macierzy Szkolnej, 1932); later published as Narkotyki, Niemyte dusze (edited by Anna Micińska ; Warszawa : Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1975). Farewell to autumn originally published as Pożegnanie jesieni (Warszawa : F. Hoesick, 1927)"--Colophon.
  note: Artwork by the author.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-pl---
  subject:
    topic: Drug addiction
  subject:
    topic: Artists
    topic: Drug use
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy
      name part: 1885-1939
    topic: Drug use
  subject:
    topic: Novelists, Polish
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Artists
    geographic: Poland
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Drug addicts
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Drugs and the arts
  classification: RC566 .W588 2018
  classification: PG7158.W5212 A3 2018
  classification: HV5805.W58 A3 2018
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Pożegnanie jesieni. Selections. English
    name:
      name part: Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy,
      name part: 1885-1939
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Farewell to autumn
  identifier: 8086264483
  identifier: 9788086264486
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170809
    record change date: 20181023093418.0
    record identifier: in00004022878
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng