(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 m...

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.