Bruno Schulz: sztuka jako kulturowa ekstrawagancja
Bruno Schulz: Art as Cultural Extravagance

Summary/Abstract: Nycz explores how the work of Bruno Schulz can be read through the concept of ‘extravagance’. This concept, which is key to the poetics of Schulz’s prose, has a variety of connotations: bizarreness, weirdness, exaggeration, as well as erring, going beyond, going astray. In this article, extravagance is understood as a rhetorical and stylistic device; it is defined with reference to the ‘atmospheric’ harmonization of the affects of Schulz’s experiential narrative; it is seen as a trait of the positions, appearances and behaviours of the characters in the fictional universe; it is understood as a consequence of the ‘diffusing’ context of his anthropological and cultural project; it is seen in relation to the metaphorical model of the creative process; it is seen in terms of the ‘prefigurative’ semantic organization of the short stories, and finally as a characteristic of the ‘messianic’ challenge that those short stories activate in the reader.

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