BASC70099 - Bruno Schulz

Course Description

Do you like Proust? Kafka? Polish painter and writer of Jewish descent, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), is next of kin. Brutally shot in 1942 by a Gestapo officer, Schulz did not finish his novel, The Messiah. Its manuscript and Schulz’s stories written under Nazi occupation, have been lost. Yet enough of his oeuvre remained to inspire Philip Roth and Milan Kundera, Cinthia Ozick, David Grossman, and Roberto Bolaño. “Just as the ancients traced their ancestors back to mythological unions with the gods,” writes Schulz to fellow artist, Witkacy, in 1935 “so I have attempted to establish for myself a mythic generation of forebears, a fictional family from which I derive my real origins. In some sense such ‘histories’ are real; they represent my way of life, my particular fate.”

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