translate English to French: In Witkacy's works, humor almost always becomes macabre, a burlesque tone - an invariable ingredient of Witkiewicz's plays - combines with fantasy. Bitter irony and sarcasm strongly color the represented world, in which seriousness and "elevated" philosophical discourse are mixed perfectly with, and complement, the comedic tone.
Witkiewicz raille la rhétorique du Romantisme et de la Jeune Pologne, il parodie des motifs puisés dans les œuvres de Strindberg, Ibsen, Shakespeare, Wyspianski , Rittner et Conrad.