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Sorcerer and Hermit: Jerzy Grotowski - from the Rome (1982) to the Paris (1997-1998) Lectures |
 Title: Guslarz i eremita. Jerzy Grotowski: od wykladow rzymskich (1982) do paryskich (1997–98)
Author: Grzegorz Ziolkowski
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-83-923635-7-6
Dimensions: 120x190 mm
Paperback: 475 pages
Price: 10 €
Fragment of the book: 
This publication forms part of Grzegorz Ziolkowski’s post-doctoral thesis Sorcerer and Hermit: Jerzy Grotowski – from the Rome (1982) to the Paris (1997–98) Lectures, funded by MNiSW, realised at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute.
‘I perceive Jerzy Grotowski’s practice in its successive stages (Theatre of Sources, Objective Drama and Art as vehicle) as an attempt to transform nostalgia for luminous perfection – to which, after birth (incarnation), we no longer have access because a curtain of illusion and forgetfulness separates us from it – into action. Breaking through this curtain would be the same as escaping from the loop of time. I think that Grotowski’s soteriology, Gnostic in spirit, became one with the soteriology of Hindu yoga, which is not just a system of beliefs, but above all a precise tool which facilitates the realisation of the idea of the suspension of time. Thus, Grotowski’s practices may be understood as a particular reference to yoga conceived as a yoke for processes of consciousness and also as a connection with a transcendent reality. For his practices, similarly to yoga, are driven by the pursuit of liberation from the prison of history and personal idiosyncrasies, founded on sophisticated techniques that encompass the human being in its totality’. [Fragment from the book]
See: - Kris Salata: Guslarz i eremita [The Guslar and The Hermit], TDR: The Drama Review, Spring 2010 (T 205), vol. 54, no. 1, p. 183–185.
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