(Un)masking Bruno Schulz : : new combinations, further fragmentations, ultimate reintegrations / / edited by Dieter De Bruyn and Kris Van Heuckelom.

• Superior document: Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, vol. 54
• TeilnehmendeR: De Bruyn, Dieter.; Heuckelom, Kris van, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (529 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Whatever critical scalpel one selects for dissecting the literary works of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), there will always be a certain degree of textual resistance which cannot be broken. Or in other words, taking off one of Schulz’s many masks, one will probably never avoid the impression that a new mask has emerged. This book contributes to the three most typical critical strategies of reading Schulz’s works (combinations, fragmentations, reintegrations) – being fully aware, of course, of the relativity of each particular approach. In addition, the book sets out to explore all of Schulz’s creative output (i.e. his stories as well as his graphic, epistolary and even literary critical works), as one of Schulz’s main goals was exactly to cross artificially set up boundaries between, among other things, different artistic media of expression. The book for the first time brings together leading Schulzologists (Jarzębski, Robertson, Sproede) and their prospective successors (Augsburger, Gorin, Kato, Suchańska-Drażyńska, Underhill, Wojda), established Polish academics (Dąbrowski, Markowski, Skwara, Weretiuk) and their foreign counterparts (De Bruyn, Gall, Meyer-Fraatz, Schulte, Zieliński), scholars primarily working on other authors (Anessi, Śliwa, Żurek) and those focusing on other art forms (Sánchez-Pardo, Watt). The editors’ introduction offers an overview of seven decades of Schulzology . The book is of interest for both readers with a general interest in (world) literature and/or a particular interest in Polish and Jewish studies.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Seven Decades of Schulzology / Dieter De Bruyn and Kris Van Heuckelom -- Ecstasy and Heresy: Martin Buber, Bruno Schulz, and Jewish Modernity / Karen Underhill -- Exposing and Concealing Jewish Origin: Bruno Schulz and Bolesław Leśmian / Andrea Meyer-Fraatz -- As One Kabbalist to Another… On Arnold Słucki’s Mystical Visions in the Poem ‘Bruno Schulz’ / Sławomir Jacek Żurek -- “The Lie Always Rises to the Surface like Oil”. Toward a Metafictional Reading of Karol Irzykowski’s Pałuba and Bruno Schulz’s Fiction / Dieter De Bruyn -- “I Drew a Plan of an Imaginary City”. The Phenomenon of the City in Bruno Schulz and Miron Białoszewski / Anna Śliwa -- Mythopoetic Traditions and Inserted Treatises: Bruno Schulz and Danilo Kiš / Alfred Gall -- Bruno Schulz and the Magical Realism of Gabriel García Márquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude / Dorota Wojda -- “A (Wo)man on a Sofa” in Bruno Schulz’s Art and Writings. Schulz as a “Painterly” and “Writerly” Artist / Marta Skwara -- The Early Graphic Works of Bruno Schulz and Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs: Schulz as a Modernist / Ariko Kato -- Zuloaga (Rilke?) Schulz / Jan Zieliński -- Bruno Schulz and Djuna Barnes: Border-crossing and Artistic Practice / Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- Bruno Schulz’s Incomparable Realities: From Literature to Theatricality / Daniel Watt -- Aesthetics of Melancholy in Bruno Schulz’s Writings / Mieczysław Dąbrowski -- Bruno Schulz and Seductive Discourse / Jerzy Jarzębski -- Thinking About Absurdity with Bruno Schulz: Paradox and Potential / Shlomit Gorin -- Jewish Mysticism – A Source of Similarities Between Bruno Schulz’s Writings and Psychoanalysis / Marta Suchańska-Drażyńska -- The Clepsydra of Empedocles and the Phenomena of Breath and Wind in Bruno Schulz’s Fiction / Jörg Schulte -- The Great Heresy of the Varsovian Center / Thomas Anessi -- The Ukrainian Reception of Bruno Schulz’s Writings: Paradox or Norm? / Oksana Weretiuk -- Text and Theater. The Ironic Imagination of Bruno Schulz / Michał Paweł Markowski -- Bruno Schulz’s Intimate Communication: From the “True Viewer” of Xięga bałwochwalcza to the “True Reader” of ‘Księga’ / Theodosia Robertson -- Bruno Schulz: Between Avant-Garde and Hasidic Redemption / Alfred Sproede -- Poetical Fluidization and Intellectual Eclecticism in Bruno Schulz’s Writings / Janis Augsburger -- Index.