acquire some culture, will you?

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Dramatist, novelist, philosopher, art theorist, poet, painter and photography.
you can tell i like him because of his excess well-rounded-ness.
The thing that first attracted me to him, oddlly enough, was his suicide, which i'll gracefully allow wikipedia to sum it up for you

"Shortly after Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany in September of 1939, he escaped with his young lover to eastern Poland. Following the Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17,1939 , Witkacy committed suicide. Witkiewicz lied to his lover, saying that he would give her poison while he was to cut his veins. However, he had not given her poison, but himself took Veronal and slit his wrists. She woke up later to find him dead."

the reason I stumbled upon this man was because I was doing some research for my screenplay, so i had to look up a list of famous artists/poets/authors/singers, and all the like, who had killed themselves.. and i found him. i fancy his drawings, and his photographs are alright, but i long to read his novels