Hidden Witnesses, or What Is Left (in Ficowski’s Book and in the Real World) of Two Colleagues of Bruno Schulz Cover Image

Ukryci świadkowie, czyli co pozostało (w książce Ficowskiego i w realnym świecie) po dwóch kolegach Brunona Schulza
Hidden Witnesses, or What Is Left (in Ficowski’s Book and in the Real World) of Two Colleagues of Bruno Schulz

Author(s): Jerzy Kandziora
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Philology
Published by: Fundacja Terytoria Książki
Keywords: Bruno Schulz; schulz studies; literary theory; masochism;

Summary/Abstract: Among the earliest witnesses of Bruno Schulz’s life known by Jerzy Ficowski were twolawyers from Drohobych, Michał Chajes and Izydor Friedman (after the war TadeuszLubowiecki). Although they played a particularly large role in the early formation ofknowledge about Schulz and gave a detailed characteristic of the writer, they were notmentioned by Jerzy Ficowski in his Regions of the Great Heresy and remained hidden witnesses. The reason lies deep in the realm of genre conventions of Regions, conditionedby literary culture of Ficowski who, formed in the circle of the nineteenth-century novels, great realism and vie romancée, omitted quotes and references to other people’stestimonies and, therefore, eliminated the possibility of determining facts.

  • Issue Year: 7/2016
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 216-226
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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