#Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

[jareckiworld]

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

[symphonyinblues]

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973), dir. Wojciech Jerzy Has

[dodoindido]

Not at last one can understand the great and sad machinery of spring. Ah, how it thrives on stories, on events, on chronicles, on destinies! Everything we have ever read, all the stories we have heard and those we have never heard before but have been dreaming since childhood — here and nowhere else is their home and their motherland.

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Bruno Schulz

[kaggsy59]

"...reality is as thin as paper..." #brunoschulz

Today I want to share some thoughts on an intriguing author and his Collected Stories, which I read recently – and with which I have a bit of a history!! The author is Bruno Schulz, and back in 2014 I discovered a Picador edition of his works in my local Oxfam; I’d never heard of him before, but it was a Picador and sounded fascinating so I picked it up. The book was a volume of his two short…

[89rooms]

I burned in quiet ecstasy.

Bruno Schulz - 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass,' translation Celina Wieniewska

[mediaveil]

“It is not quite as dark here as we thought. On the contrary, the interior is pulsating with light. It is, of course, the internal light of roots, a wandering phosphorescence, tiny veins of a light marbling the darkness, an evanescent shimmer of nightmarish substances. Likewise, when we sleep, severed from the world, straying into deep introversion, on a return journey into ourselves, we can see clearly through our closed eyelids, because thoughts are kindled in us by internal tapers and smolder erratically. This is how total regressions occur, retreats into self, journeys to the roots. This is how we branch out into anamnesis and are shaken by underground subcutaneous shivers. For it is only above ground, in the light of day, that we are a trembling, articulate bundle of tunes; in the depth we disintegrate again into black murmurs, confused purring, a multitude of unfinished stories.” ― Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937)

[paandaan]

tagged by @heavenlyyshecomes to share some of the books i want to read this year <3 🥂☁️

modern korean literature: an anthology / the sand child / the dyke and the dybbuk / angarey / xenogenesis series / utopias of the third kind / sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass / anybody home / in another place, not here

tagging: @elderf1ower @syrejaden @aegissi @rakkhoshii @huayno @bigshoeswamp @shiftinyou @derridaspectres @sugarsugarunes @blissfulllyyours @metamatar @chelonates @cordeliaflyte @serpentgirls @khlur

[joziokowalski]

the first (1) and the last (15) question from 2023 reading ask game lets gooooooo

1 What are 2-5 already published fiction books you think you want to read in 2023?

hhhd dude did you pick this question on purpose knowing my overwhelming tendency towards non-fiction. ok there are a few fiction books i really want to read sometime soon

1. ferdydurke by witold gombrowicz (picked it up at the very end of 2022 actually but haven’t had time to finish it yet)

2. cinnamon shops + sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass by bruno schulz (counting these two short story collections as one bc the edition i found has them both under the same cover)

3. the confusions of young törless by robert musil (i need to read something in german and this has been on my mind for years)

4. drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk

and uuuh. let's say 5. istanbul by orhan pamuk which i've already read a few times but i'd like to believe the time has now come to reread it in german. let's hope i do make it happen (edit: just realized this is Not fiction. i have smuggled in a memoir after all. this is how much my reading is dominated by biographical and autobiographical stuff lol. swap it for a strangeness in my mind by the same author if you like, that one is actually a novel and i also plan to reread it in german)

15 Any other reading you'll do in 2023 that you want to recommend to folks? Newspapers, substack, favorite blog, etc?

i love how this question is phrased. pushing me to Recommend things huh. honestly i don’t have any favourite blogs and i’ve never regularly followed any periodicals. so i’m going to weasel out of this question and say i plan on reading my old journals. i feel like it’s a good practice to look through things you wrote in the past and reflect on them and maybe even annotate them (my Current Favourite Dead Person did this a lot lol. i intend to follow him) reading your old journals, that’s what i recommend. know thyself and all that

[priyasebastian]

There are things that cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur; they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to lose their integrity in the frailty of realization.

~ Bruno Schulz’s Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass 

[tobylitt]

Just Dust

My favourite living filmmakers, the Quay Brothers, have a new film out.

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.

Here's something I wrote about their use of dust.

Very important to them, dust.

[jareckiworld]

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

[youviralart]

laura costa 

Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 28 agosto – 7 settembre 2024

SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS

Un mondo fuori dal tempo. Gran Bretagna, Polonia, Germania Un film di Quay Brothers. Un figlio accorre al capezzale del padre finendo però in un posto fluttuante a metà strada tra il sonno e la veglia.

[b33viemm]

Bruno Schulz was a Jewish artist and writer during World War II. When the Germans seized Drohobycz in 1941, he distributed almost all of his (incredibly large collection of) works to friends who were not Jewish for safekeeping. None have been seen since.

One of the lost manuscripts included his final and unfinished novel, The Messiah. He never got to create more, as he was shot and killed in Poland in 1942. We only have 2 surviving books: The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, both of which are short story collections, a collection of letters, several critical essays for newspapers, and a few artworks.

He is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Remembrance Center - Bruno Schulz

Thinking about lost works again

[ravenkings]

For beauty is a disease [...]; it is the result of a mysterious infection, a dark forerunner of decomposition, which rises from the depth of perfection and is saluted by perfection with signs of the deepest bliss.

Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Trans. Celina Wieniewska 

[objetpetita]

It is part of my existence to be the parasite of metaphors, so easily am I carried away by the first simile that comes along. Having been carried away, I have to find my difficult way back, and slowly return to my senses.

Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass