ANNA SWIRSZCZYŃSKA Orpheus. A play in 3 acts.

Kraków 1956, Wydawnictwo Literackie, pp. 84, form. 13 x 20, publisher's cardboard binding, cover soiled, slight rubbing of spine. The cover was designed by Barbara Gawdzik-Brzozowska.

Drama in 3 acts based on the mythical story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Written in accordance with the trend of 20th-century French theater of 20th-century neoclassicism, developed in the 1920s and 1930s, derived from Greek and Christian mythology, whose main representative was Jean Cocteau. Svirshchinskaya adopts the style of this drama to present her own interpretation of the Orpheus myth, used here as a pretext for considering human freedom in the face of death (the text was written partly during the war) and the woman-man relationship, which has always fascinated Svirshchinskaya.