Zgodnie z naturą, ale wbrew prawu
According to Nature but against the Law

Some Remarks on Bruno Schulz’s “Traktat o manekinach” (“Treatise on Tailors’ Dummies”)

Summary/Abstract: The article is an interpretation of a story from the volume “Sklepy cynamonowe” (“The Cinnamon Shops”). An analysis of the conflict between the matriarchal and the patriarchal order is the context of this reading. Such conflict of sexes as sketched by Johann Jakob Bachofen is also present in Schulz’s prose, and in “Traktat o manekinach” (“Treatise on Tailors’ Dummies”) the father presents an equivocal apology of Great Feminity, whereas the entire argument of Jakub can be expressed in a form of an erotic game in which the inspired heresiarch plays the role of the seducer.

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