Kobieca wyobraźnia i rzeczywistość grozy: schulzolog czyta opowiadania Nady Gašić
Female Imagination and the Reality of Horror: an Expert on Schulz Reads Stories by Nada Gašić

Summary/Abstract: The principle of an indirect association link makes it possible to discover in a new text the key to deciphering a previous, classical work. The author of this essay attempted to see the oeuvre and life of Bruno Schulz mirrored in prose by the Croatian author Nada Gašić. An impulse to write this text was the superimposition of reality and reading. Examples of such a procedure are used by John William Dunne in his theory of parallel time dimensions, which might be one of the keys to understanding the mystery of Schulz’s world. Reading The Last Thing They Saw (2022) – a collection of Gašić’s short stories – was marked by a symbolic of his writings and life, making it possible to perceive parallels between the works of both authors. Particular attention was paid to the strategy of granting names to the protagonists of prose by Bruno Schulz and Nada Gašić, the motifs of fear, the Sun, the fairy-tale, and the colour range of the texts.

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