Transponowanie powszedniości na niezwykłość w opowiadaniach Brunona Schulza
Transposing the Mundane to the Extraordinary in Bruno Schulz’s Stories

Author(s): Aleksandra Smusz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the techniques of description in Bruno Schulz’s short stories. It presents the methods of metaphorising the reality, which are expressly different from the schemes perpetuated by realism. The analyses of the excerpts from The Street of Crocodiles (Sklepy cynamonowe) and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą) point to various rhetorical devices that result in an extraordinary character of the descriptions, combining numerous heterogeneous elements and referring to symbolic signs of culture. This text also discusses the methods of constituting boundaries in the created reality by the narrator: boundaries that separate the central part of magical Drohobych with its inhabitants from everything that resides in the peripheries of the city and is perceived as unfamiliar, unfriendly, and hostile.

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