WRITER

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

1885 - 1939

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish: [staˈɲiswaf iɡˈnatsɨ vʲitˈkʲɛvʲitʂ]; 24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz has received more than 274,672 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz is the 1,589th most popular writer (up from 1,707th in 2019), the 353rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 365th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dramaty
1962
Czysta forma w teatrze
Drama, Form (Aesthetics), History and criticism
1977
Pożegnanie jesieni
decadentism, homosexuality, drugs
A young writer Atanazy Bazakbal is getting married to sweet Zosia. However, he is enthralled by a demonic Hela Bertz, who on her part is marrying prince Prepudrech. Not to mention the decadent, cocaine-addicted, homosexual count Lohoyski, who too wants to have his share of Atanazy... and all this in the context of the fast spreading communist revolution, turning the usual values upside down, religion becoming atheism, individualism becoming communism, and art becoming utility. Witkiewicz describes the decaying world as he sees it, and given he [allegedly] committed suicide after the Russian revolutionaries entered the territory of Poland, he sure would know what he was writing about... With his brilliant use of language and artistic background, Witkiewicz's novel is one of the most interesting Polish books ever written.
1979
Beelzebub Sonata
Polish Authors, Biography
1980
W małym dworku
English drama, Polish drama, Translations from Polish
1972
Nienasycenie
History, Fiction
1957

Page views of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewiczs by language

Over the past year Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz has had the most page views in the with 201,003 views, followed by English (33,247), and Russian (7,210). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (719.72%), Ido (670.37%), and Basque (140.13%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 1,589 out of 7,302. Before him are Giorgio Bassani, Mór Jókai, Lydia Koidula, Akiyuki Nosaka, Namık Kemal, and Attila József. After him are Silvina Ocampo, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Arnaldur Indriðason, Natalie Clifford Barney, and Yaşar Kemal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 67. Before him are Jules Pascin, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Sydney Chaplin, René Grousset, Alois Hudal, and Sisavang Vong. After him are Khải Định, Egon Kisch, Soemu Toyoda, Jules Romains, Viktor Schauberger, and Agustín Barrios. Among people deceased in 1939, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 40. Before him are Gerardo Machado, Otto Wels, Roman Dmowski, Franz Schmidt, Isaac Carasso, and Hans Langsdorff. After him are Norman Bethune, Carl Laemmle, Wu Peifu, Vladimir Shukhov, Bruno Liljefors, and Grigori Sokolnikov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 353 out of 1,694. Before him are Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (1286), Muazzez Sultan (1628), Richard Pipes (1923), Werner Naumann (1909), Anna Catherine Constance Vasa (1619), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939). After him are Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (1457), Józef Elsner (1769), and Hugo Steinhaus (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ranks 32. Before him are Jan Długosz (1415), Jan Kochanowski (1530), Georg Heym (1887), Sławomir Mrożek (1930), Fritz Gerlich (1883), and Jerzy Kosiński (1933). After him are Avraham Stern (1907), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Martin Opitz (1597), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), I. L. Peretz (1852), and Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868).

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