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A Worm Gnaws on the Tale

Author(s): Aleksandra Wołkowicz
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Polish Literature, Book-Review
Published by: Fundacja Terytoria Książki
Keywords: schulz studies;schulzologia;bruno schulz;jakub woynarowski

Summary/Abstract: Jakub Woynarowski limits the plot of his comic book based on Schulz’s fiction toa minimum: the composition consists of full-page planes while balloons have been replaced by micro-narration. Placing the quotes from Schulz beneath or above the pictures and reducing colors to black, white, and glaring orange suggest a return to the beginnings of the comic book, when it was just a story in pictures, subservient to a literary text. However, Woynarowski adjusts Schulz to his own strategy, offering the reader a self-exposing approach to the problems of neo-conceptualism, rather than an original interpretation of Schulz’s works.

  • Issue Year: 8/2016
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 167-170
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Polish