Bruno Schulz – niezwykły i rozpoznawalny
Bruno Schulz – Extraordinary and Recognisable

Summary/Abstract: The author of this essay proposed an attempt of his own at perceiving and assimilating the Bruno Schulz phenomenon upon the basis of his literary experience in the categories of discourse, fate, prophecy semantics, metaphysics, and the magic of being, mythologization, and symbolism. In the Sklepy cynamonowe cycle Schulz focused on his family past – the reminiscence-artistic current is focused on the author’s childhood. While doing so, Schulz observed the world of his infancy in a dual manner: as if through the eyes of a child but actually via a vision of his present-day “I”, the awareness of an adult. Father and mother, aunt, a female servant, a seamstress, and an uncle are full-fledged characters who act and experience, while the narrator, although remaining a dramatis persona, is actually the chief observer and not an active protagonist. Generally speaking, if we were to seek Schulz’s parallels amongst Ukrainian men of letters, both his predecessors and contemporary authors, then while taking into account a combination of mimetic presentation and a fantastic, unhampered, and fluid passage from a realistic level to a symbolic and mythological one we could say that he remains closest to Mykhailo Yatskiv (1873–1961).

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