Regions of the great heresy : Bruno Schulz : a biographical portrait / Jerzy Ficowski ; translated and edited by Theodosia Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ficowski, Jerzy.

Contributor:

Robertson, Theodosia S.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Regiony wielkiej herezji. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942.

Schulz, Bruno.

Authors, Polish--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Polish.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

255 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]

Language Note:

Translated from the Polish.

Summary:

Exactly 60 years after his death, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) remains one of the 20th centuryUs greatest and most enigmatic writers--still the subject of front-page controversy. Here renowned Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski presents the first biography of the man who, in the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "wrote sometimes like Kafka, sometimes like Proust, and at times succeeded in reaching depths that neither of them reached."

Contents:

I found the authentic (in place of a prologue)

Bruno, son of Jacob

Return to school

The prehistory and origin of Cinnamon shops

The book, or, Childhood regained

Schulzian time

Phantoms and reality

Excursions abroad

Magic and definition

A settling of accounts

Works preserved and lost

Awaiting Messiah, a postscript

The last fairy tale of Bruno Schulz

Letters

A chronology of the life and works of Bruno Schulz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0393051471

OCLC:

50503257