“Stumps Folded Into a Fist": Extra Time, Chance, and Virtual Reality in Bruno Schulz
“Stumps Folded Into a Fist": Extra Time, Chance, and Virtual Reality in Bruno Schulz

Summary/Abstract: It is often said that two of the defining notions of European modernism are its favoring of time over space and its proneness to represent spatial relationships as if they were temporal ones, rather than vice versa. If this is an accurate assessment, Bruno Schulz is a modernist par excellence. Within modernism, we may distinguish between an "abolitionist" attitude toward time (the avant-garde and its effort to outpace history) and a relativistic attitude (Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot). This second group of modernists does not (or not necessarily ) share the antihistorical iconoclasm of the avant-garde. Instead, it relativizes human history by placing it in the broader context of universal myths; the historical fact is not liquidated in the sty le of the avant-garde, even though it loses a good deal of its erstwhile autonomy. [...]

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