ABSTRACT
As if to stress his wavering attitude towards science, Stanislavsky concludes the second part of an Actor’s Work on Himself (in English, Building a Character) by taking a different stance from the one he had adopted in the preface. Searching for a definition of what he calls ‘the majesty of the searchings of science’, he makes the following assertion: ‘To me it is the urge to attain, with the help of a sensitive heart, the unattained. And it will be attained in time’ (1979:297). He goes on to define his own role in this process:
In the expectation of these new triumphs of science I have felt there was nothing for me to do except to devote my labours and energy almost exclusively to the study of Creative Nature-not to learn to create in her stead, but to seek oblique, roundabout ways to approach her, not to study inspiration as such but only to find some paths leading to it. I have discovered only a few of them, I know that there are a great many more and that they will eventually be discovered by others. Nevertheless I have acquired a sum of experience in the course of long years of work and this is what I have sought to share with you.
