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Time Pressure and the Meaning of Existence in S.I. Witkiewitcz's "The Crazy Locomotive"
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... Time Pressure and the Meaning of Existence in S.I. Witkiewitcz's "The Crazy Locomotive" Simona J. Sivkoff SLAV 307C Dr. P. Petro UBC The Crazy Locomotive is an existentialist play that in highly refined philosophical manner searches for an explanation of human existence in constructed society and offers a glimpse into the Absolute. Witkiewicz confronts the audience with a type of drama which is disturbing, grotesque, modern and nevertheless extrapolating on knowledge from the past, such as his admitted admiration for the dream plays of August Strindberg, the Apollo-Dionysian conflict in Nietzsche and the suspension of the ethical in Kierkegaard. The author looks for the reasons that account for a meaningful human existence; he questions all conventional explanations of the necessity to exist and finds the realm of true essence to reside on the border of madness or death. His drama, created in opposition to emerging cinematography, unfolds in style that does not follow logic and
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