Schulz Uniwersalny
The Universal Schulz

Summary/Abstract: The Universal Schulz is Schulz whose work makes the reader face many ambivalencesboth as regards personal and artistic choices made by the writer. The author identifies,puts in order, and places in a wide context those ambivalences which so far have provedmost inspiring for interpreting Schulz’s stories, letters, and essays. At first the sameambivalences created problems encountered by the early critical reception of his works.The most difficult was not just his unique fiction, but also its idiom. In the 1930 and1940s Schulz’s language could be read as aberration or anachronism, which meant thatto attract more readers it had to come at least a little closer to standard Polish. Since,however, the stories could not change, what had to were the standards defining “acceptable”prose. The style of Polish prose gradually approached Schulz’s idiom by becomingmore open to stylistic idiosyncrasy and experiment.

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