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A year after his wife, Anastazja, died under mysterious circumstances, the daughters hold a spiritualist séance .

The play ruthlessly mocks traditional psychological dramas about adultery, jealousy, and suicide by treating death and haunting with comedic indifference. Witkacy’s Artistic Philosophy w_malym_dworku_stanislaw_ignacy_witkiewicz_1969...

While it is one of Witkacy’s works closest to a realistic setting, it uses that setting specifically to dismantle the conventions of stage realism. A year after his wife, Anastazja, died under

The story is set in a fictional Polish manor house where the owner, , lives with his two daughters. A year after his wife

The play is a prime example of Witkacy’s , which aimed to provoke a "metaphysical shudder" in the audience by moving away from realism toward a more mystical and abstract theatrical experience.