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Return of the Great Birds

Summary/Abstract: The essay is a textological fantasy based on a suggestion, which is implied in Schulz’s fiction, that its protagonist, the Father, is not so much a merchant from the golden days as a self-appointed magician. Still, the Father’s magic interference with reality usually ends in failure. Evidence for this can be found in the story called “Birds,” in which thebirds hatched by the Father, obnoxious and annoying to the family, are expelled by Adela,the maidservant. When in another story, “The Night of the Great Season,” the reader comes across a flock of strange birds, they seem to be the descendants of the one described in “Birds.” Nevertheless, Schulz’s narrators should never be fully trusted. In this case, the narrator is the son who has reasons for concealing or misinterpreting the Father’s failures.

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