• Contents 
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Witkacy and the Creative Life
• Part 1: 
• Witkiewicz Father and Son: Young Stas's Upbringing, 1885–1914
• Cockroaches: A Comedy in One Act (1893)
• Comedies of Family Life: Four Comedies (1893)
• “On Dualism” (1902)
• Letter to Malinowski (1906)
• The 622 Downfalls of Bungo; or, The Demonic Woman (1910–11)
• Part 2: 
• Tropics and Revolution, 1914–18
• Letters (1914–18)
• New Forms in Painting and the Misunderstandings Arising Therefrom (1919)
• Part 3: 
• Pure Form and Marriage, 1918–24
• The New Deliverance: A Play in One Act (1920)
• Letters to Malinowski (1921–23)
• “Pure Form in the Theater” (1921)
• “Second Response to the Reviewers of The Pragmatists” (1922)
• Janulka, Daughter of Fizdejko: A Tragedy in Four Acts (1923)
• Part 4: 
• Portrait-Painting Firm, Drugs, and Novels, 1925–31
• Farewell to Autumn (1926)
• Letters to Malinowski (1927–29)
• Rules of the S. I. Witkiewicz Portrait-Painting Firm (1928)
• Narcotics: Nicotine, Alcohol, Cocaine, Peyote, Morphine, and Ether (1932)
• Part 5: 
• Philosophy and Suicide 1931–39
• “Response and Revelation” (1931)
• “Metaphysical Feelings” (1931)
• “Relations of Religion and Philosophy” (1932)
• The Only Way Out (1931–33)
• “Interview with Bruno Schulz” (1935)
• “Bruno Schulz's Literary Work” (1935)
• Unwashed Souls (1936)
• Letters to Malinowski (1935–38)
• “Balance Sheet on Formism” (1938)
• Appendix
• Contemporaries and Moderns Comment on Witkacy
• Chronology: Witkiewicz and Malinowski
• Biographical Notes
• Select Bibliography

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