Bruno Schulz’s Stories

Translated by John Curran Davis

 

 

The Cinnamon Shops

 

The Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass

(A selection)

 

Recommended books

Regions of the Great Heresy
Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portrait

Jerzy Ficowski (translated and edited by Theodosia Robertson)

 

Muse & Messiah
The Life, Imagination & Legacy of Bruno Schulz

Brian R. Banks

 

Bruno Schulz
New Documents and Interpretations

Edited by Czeslaw Z. Prokopczyk

 


Schulz Critique

Hosted at this site:

Piotr Jędrzejak
The Bloody Tyrant: Time in the fiction of William Faulkner and Bruno Schulz

External links:

Jan Błoński
On the Jewish Sources of Bruno Schulz

Paweł Dybel
Bruno Schulz and Psychoanalysis: The Images of Women in “August”

Ruth Franklin
The Lost (Searching for Bruno Schulz)

Robert Fulford
Deep Into Private Mythology With Bruno Schulz

David A. Goldfarb
A Living Schulz: “Noc wielkiego sezonu” (“The Night of the Great Season”)

Jaimy Gordon
The Strange Afterlife of Bruno Schulz

Danusha Goska
Regions of the Great Heresy

David Grossman
Too Much Hurt

Kris Van Heuckelom
Artistic Crossover in Polish Modernism. The Case of Bruno Schulz’s Xięga Bałwochwalcza

Mark Kaplan
A Tribute to Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz and Wittgenstein

Adam Zachary Newton
“Nothing but face”—“To hell with philosophy”?: Witold Gombrowicz, Bruno Schulz, and the scandal of human countenance

Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska
Selected Liquid Metaphors in Bruno Schulz’s Fiction in an English Translation

Benjamin Paloff
Who Owns Bruno Schulz?

Eugenia Prokop-Janiec
Schulz and the Galician Melting Pot of Cultures

Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Bruno Schulz & the Exultant Darkness


Art inspired by Bruno Schulz:

Megan Jones
“Conversations with Bruno Schulz”

Tania Fred
In Memory of Bruno Schulz

Sabine Vess
Bruno Schulz - Sabine Vess: an encounter


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The largest and most comprehensive website devoted to Bruno Schulz is:

brunoschulz.org

It is not an English language site, but it is navigable by the intrepid and replete with treasures.

 

** VIDEO CLIPS **

The Quay Brothers:
Excerpts from The Street of Crocodiles

Alina Skiba:
Excerpt from Ażiotaż biletów na czas (A Street Trade in the Tickets for Time)

Martha Moopette:
Hedgehogs and Honeybeads
(Although not directly referencing Bruno Schulz, for me this impressive video evokes a very schulzian atmosphere)

Benjamin Geissler:
Excerpt from Finding Pictures

 

** AUDIO PROGRAMME **

Eric Fixler:
"Oy Mendele!" (Sept 20th 2005)

  • The funky (really!) Jewish hip-hop beats of Socalled: interview + music with Socalled and a tour through the work of some of his favorite Jewish musicians, including Aaron Lebedeff, Irving Fields, and Mickey Katz.
  • Zac Jaffee reviews Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, the new record by Cracow Klezmer Band that pays tribute to Bruno Schulz.
  • Benjamin Paloff on the transcendent art, tragic life, and unsettled legacy of Bruno Schulz.