Akwarium i luneta. Metaforyka okulocentryczna w twórczości Brunona Schulza
The Aquarium and the Looking Glass. Oculocentric Metaphors in Bruno Schulz’s Fiction
Author(s): Katarzyna SzalewskaSubject(s): Architecture, History of ideas, Comparative Study of Literature, Polish Literature, Culture and social structure , Cultural Essay, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Fundacja Terytoria Książki
Keywords: Bruno Schulz;Imaginary City;Melancholy;Literary Theory;Moderni
Summary/Abstract: The paper is an analysis of the motif of glass in the fiction of Bruno Schulz. The writer’s fascination with this particular material is related to the experience of modernity, sinceglass served as the substance of permanent and repetitive phantasms. In this respect, Schulz’s writing can be read as an artistically processed testimony of fascination with one of the material dimensions of modernity, which was glass architecture. The author interprets the modernist oculocentrism in Schulz’s stories, focusing on transparency in the spatial figures of the author of Cinnamon Shops (including panoramas, glass balls,telescopes, etc.).
Journal: Schulz/Forum
- Issue Year: 11/2018
- Issue No: 11
- Page Range: 30-44
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English, Polish