#Bruno Schulz

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« The essence of reality is meaning. That which has no meaning is not real for us. Every fragment of reality lives due to the fact that it partakes of some sort of universal meaning. The old cosmogonies expressed this in the maxim 'in the beginning was the Word'. The unnamed does not exist for us. To name something means to include it in some universal meaning.

[…] The word in its colloquial, present-day meaning is now only a fragment, a rudiment of some former, all-encompassing, integral mythology. For that reason, it retains within it a tendency to grow again, to regenerate, to become complete in its full meaning. The life of the word resides in the fact that it tenses and strains to produce a thousand associations, like the quartered body of the snake of legend, whose separate pieces sought each other in the dark. […]

[A]nd this tendency of the word to return to its nursery, its yearning to revert to its origins, to its verbal homeland, we term poetry.

Poetry is the short-circuiting of meaning between words, the impetuous regeneration of primordial myth. When we employ commonplace words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that, like barbarians, we are building our homes out of fragments of sculptures and the statues of the gods.

[…] The spirit's first and foremost function is to tell stories and to make up 'tales'. The driving force of human knowledge is the conviction that at the end of its investigations, it will discover the ultimate meaning of the world. […] The human spirit is tireless in its glossing of life with the aid of myths, in its 'making sense' of reality. The word itself, left to its own devices, gravitates towards meaning. […] Speech is the metaphysical organ of man. […] The poet restores conductivity to words through new short-circuits, which arise out of their fusions. […] Philosophy is really philology, the creative exploration of the word. »

— Bruno Schulz, "The mythologization of reality"

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Classic weird fiction reading list

A chart of recommended strange, disturbing, and unsettling books published before 1990. This is a selection from my list of over 200 works of weird literature that I published on my website.

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Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles

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Bruno Schulz (Polish/Jewish, 1892–1942)

"Zabawy w parku", ca. 1920–1922

Biblioteka Jagiellońska

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The Hourglass Sanatorium / Sanatorium pod klepsydrą (1973) 

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Director: Wojciech Has

Cinematographer: Witold Sobociński

Performer: Jan Nowicki

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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (directors: Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay, 2024)

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"En alguna parte del mundo crece y adquiere importancia eso para lo que la naturaleza ha preparado el molde, ese hiato (continuidad, interrupción o separación) sin un soplo, que el perfume de las lilas no llega a colmar."

"¿Habéis observado que entre las líneas de ciertos libros las golondrinas pasan en bandadas, versículos de golondrinas puntiagudas y temblorosas? Hay que leer el vuelo de los pájaros. Pero vuelvo a ella…"

Bruno Schulz, La Primavera. Maldoror ediciones, 2009. Traducción: Jorge Segovia

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Bruno Schulz, Adela Adormecida e Eddie (1935)

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Street of Crocodiles (1986, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay)

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Books 11-20 of the year 📖

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Foreign fantasy: from decadence to catastrophe

A chart of fantastical, surreal, and decadent fiction written by non-Anglophone authors between 1880 and 1939. Includes a wide range of genres and styles, from literary phantasmagoria to macabre potboilers. This is a selection from a larger list of 100 non-English fantasy works I posted on my website.

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omg, nie wiedziałam, że streamuje......

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Lola and Lulu = The Bruno Schulz drawing of Marlene Dietrich and Louise Brooks, c. 1930 https://www.pandorasbox.com/tributes/bruno-schulz-drawing-of-marlene-dietrich-and-louise-brooks/

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The Hourglass Sanatorium / Sanatorium pod klepsydrą (1973) 

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Wojciech Has

Cinematographer: Witold Sobociński

Performer: Jan Nowicki

[jareckiworld]

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (directors: Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay, 2024)