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Longing for Coherence

Notes on Intertextuality, Composition, and the Concept of Language in Bruno Schulz’s Fiction

Summary/Abstract: Schulz was particularly predisposed to intertextuality, since his hometown was genuinely multilingual, with Polish and Yiddish as dominants. German, as the official language of the Austro-Hungarian administration and that of Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn,Goethe, Schiller, and Heine, was especially attractive to the educated Eastern EuropeanJews, which applied also to Schulz’s mother who taught him Goethe’s ballad, “The Erlking.” On the other hand, such centers of modernism as Vienna, Lviv, Cracow, and Warsaw, which affected the young Schulz in his student years, were also francophilic so that the works of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Zola, Proust, Huysmans, Claudel, and Gide,as well as the philosophical writings of Bergson, must have influenced him, too.

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