(Un)masking Bruno Schulz

New Combinations, Further Fragmentations, Ultimate Reintegrations
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-420-2694-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 529 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 989 g

Reihe: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics

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 (Jarzebski, Robertson, Sproede) and their prospective successors (Augsburger, Gorin, Kato, Suchanska-Drazynska, Underhill, Wojda), established Polish academics (Dabrowski, Markowski, Skwara, Weretiuk) and their foreign counterparts (De Bruyn, Gall, Meyer-Fraatz, Schulte, Zielinski), scholars primarily working on other authors (Anessi, Sliwa, Zurek) 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bruyn, Dieter De

Heuckelom, Kris Van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dieter De Bruyn & Kris Van Heuckelom: Introduction: Seven Decades of Schulzology
New Combinations: Literature
Karen Underhill: Ecstasy and Heresy: Martin Buber, Bruno Schulz, and Jewish Modernity
Andrea Meyer-Fraatz: Exposing and Concealing Jewish Origin: Bruno Schulz and Boleslaw Lesmian
Slawomir Jacek Zurek: As One Kabbalist to Another… On Arnold Slucki’s Mystical Visions of the World in the Poem ‘Bruno Schulz’
Dieter De Bruyn: “The Lie Always Rises to the Surface like Oil”. Toward a Metafictional Reading of Karol Irzykowski’s Paluba and Bruno Schulz’s Fiction
Anna Sliwa: “I Drew a Plan of an Imaginary City”. The Phenomenon of the City in Bruno Schulz and Miron Bialoszewski
Alfred Gall: Mythopoetic Traditions and Inserted Treatises: Bruno Schulz and Danilo Kiš
Dorota Wojda: Bruno Schulz and the Magical Realism of Gabriel García Márquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude
New Combinations: Art
Marta Skwara: “A (Wo)man on a Sofa” in Bruno Schulz’s Art and Writings. Schulz as a “Painterly” and “Writerly” Artist
Ariko Kato: The Early Graphic Works of Bruno Schulz and Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs: Schulz as a Modernist
Jan Zielinski: Zuloaga (Rilke?) Schulz
Esther Sánchez-Pardo: Bruno Schulz and Djuna Barnes: Border-crossing and Artistic Practice
Daniel Watt: Bruno Schulz’s Incomparable Realities: From Literature to Theatricality
Further Fragmentations
Mieczyslaw Dabrowski: Aesthetics of Melancholy in Bruno Schulz’s Writings
Jerzy Jarzebski: Bruno Schulz and Seductive Discourse
Shlomit Gorin: Thinking About Absurdity with Bruno Schulz: Paradox and Potential
Marta Suchanska-Drazynska: Jewish Mysticism – A Source of Similarities Between Bruno Schulz’s Writings and Psychoanalysis
Jörg Schulte: The Clepsydra of Empedocles and the Phenomena of Breath and Wind in Bruno Schulz’s Fiction
Thomas Anessi: The Great Heresy of the Varsovian Center
Oksana Weretiuk: The Ukrainian Reception of Bruno Schulz’s Writings: Paradox or Norm?
Ultimate Reintegrations
Michal Pawel Markowski: Text and Theater. The Ironic Imagination of Bruno Schulz
Theodosia Robertson: Bruno Schulz’s Intimate Communication: From the “True Viewer” of Xiega balwochwalcza to the “True Reader” of ‘Ksiega’
Alfred Sproede: Bruno Schulz: Between Avant-Garde and Hasidic Redemption
Janis Augsburger: Poetical Fluidization and Intellectual Eclecticism in Bruno Schulz’s Writings
Index