Bruno Schulz: Knjiga

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Title (english): Bruno Schulz: The Book
• Author: Dalibor Blažina
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of West Slavic languages and literatures)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Slavic Studies

Abstract (english)

The article contextualizes the work of the Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), in particular his two collections
of stories, Cinnamon Shops and A Sanatorium under a Clepsydra, within the development of the topos of the Book
in the history of world literature. At the same time, two basic critical positions are formed in the history of reading, i.e. of
critical interpretations of Schulz's work and the notion of the Book as the core of his ontology, aesthetics and poetics are
discovered as producing a range of epistemes, from modernist symbolism to the tradition of Judaic philosophy and mythographic criticism. The second departs from the fundamental postulate of postmodernism, i.e. the dissemination of
meaning and differentiation as the basic ontological principle of Schulz's world. On the basis of examples on which the
multilayered use of the notion of the Book- growing into the topos of the Book-Nature, i.e. the meaning itself- is verified,
the article concludes that the two interpretative traditions are not mutually exclusive, but mutually complementing and
confirming, just as Schulz's central position in literature is confirmed by his basic position - marginality in relation to a
mythologized Centre.

• Language: croatian
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Književna smotra
• Numbering: vol. XXX, no. 108-109(2-3), pp. 29-37
• p-ISSN: 0455-0463
• e-ISSN: 2459-6329
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:835333
• Publication: 1998
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2019-12-18 12:12:48