Stanislaw Przybyszewski Requiem aeternam... The third book of the pentateuch Lviv 1904 first Polish edition Polish Bookstore 84s. o. original booklet p. db cover deterioration - spine reinforced, stamps For. ca: 19x14.5 cm ""In the beginning there was chutzpah,"" is how Przybyszewski's piece begins, which was an expression of his philosophical concepts and which caused one of the many scandals associated with his work. This remarkable piece takes a closer look not only at the philosophical tenets of Przybyszewski's work, but once again presents the dramatic complications of the mutual relationship between man and woman. Contrary to appearances, it is a work with a moralistic message, inscribed in the modernist search for the principle of being and the engine of human destiny. Stanislaw Przybyszewski counted "Requiem aeternam" among his series of prose poems or rhapsodies. It is a manifesto of Przybyszewski's pansexualist views that shocked his contemporaries and retains its originality to this day." |