The memory of the body : essays on theater and death / Jan Kott ; [with translations by Jadwiga Kosicka, Lillian Vallee, and others] by Kott, Jan 1914-2001 - 1992

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 153 p : ill ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Translated from the Polish. Contents; Part I. The Dramaturge -- A Lesson in Directing -- Simulators -- The Voice of Cassandra: On Stempowski -- Lec and His Aphorisms -- On Bombrowicz and Schulz -- Kantor's Kaddish -- Kantor, Memory, Mémoire (1915-90) -- Mro ek's_Emigrés -- Grotowski, or The Limit -- Part II. A Short Treatise on Eroticism Aloe -- A Short Treatise on Dying -- The Sexual Triangle -- In the Kitchen of a Shamaness -- The Heart Attack -- The Memory of the Body -- Part III. Gilgamesh or Mortality. Subjects; Kott, Jan 1914-2001. Theater Poland History. Theatrical producers and directors History. Dramatists. Human body (Philosophy).