Profetyczne akcenty prozy Brunona Schulza
Prophetic Features of Bruno Schulz’s Fiction

Summary/Abstract: The publication of Cinnamon Shops precedes by just one year the Nobel Prize in medicinegiven to Hans Sperman, who a few years later, in 1938, proposed a crucial experimentof removing from an unfertilized egg cell its nucleus and replacing it with thenucleus of a cell of an embryo. From our present point of view it is hard not to noticea prophetic bent of Schulz’s fiction even if Jacob’s experimental assumption does notquite correspond to the process of cloning as we know it. Also Father’s ornithologicalexperiment is a key component of the narrative structure of the Cinnamon Shops asa kind of frame that consolidates particular stories. The mystical student of the matterdoes not renounce the discourse of science even though the order which he createsbecomes more and more fantastic, while he suffers from the metaphysical and anthropologicalanxiety about the alien handicapped creatures.

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