Bruno Schulz – pisarz bez archiwum? Medialne i archiwistyczne spojrzenie na przyszłość schulzologii
Bruno Schulz – the writer without an archive? A medial and archival view on the future of Schulz-Studies

Summary/Abstract: The research on the works of Bruno Schulz is, without a doubt, a challenging task. Not only is it impossible to recreate longer periods of the artist’s life, but also both his correspondence and even actual novels were destroyed during the Second World War. For precisely this reason, one may say, the complete Schulz-Archive does not exist. A writer, whose work and story did not leave behind a particular back up in a form of an archive, morphs with time into a medial entity, inseparably connected to the gesture of narration building. In the course of the last decades for instance, the discourse of the Holocaust and Polish memory culture started to dominate Schulz’s biography.Exploring the meaning of an archive in the work and biography of Bruno Schulz, the article aims at answering the question regarding the possible interpretation of the lapses in the documentation of his life and their significance for the creation of an intermedial Schulz-myth. With the help of the theories from archive and media studies, the text offers a detailed glance at modern Schulz reception, comparing the biographical trends to the tendencies of Holocaust history and European memory culture.

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