Creator’s freedom. Schulz’s late projects
Creator’s freedom. Schulz’s late projects
Author(s): Monika Szyszka vel SyskaSubject(s): Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Austro-Hungarian Empire; Bruno Schulz; creation; crisis Demiurge; education; exegesis; gnosis; culture; Modernity; myth
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the idea of creation coined by authors descended from the same, Austro-Hungarian cultural field, by: Bruno Schulz, Joseph Roth and Gustav Meyrink. Austro-Hungarian Monarchy created its own mithology based on nostalgia for the World, which was consigning to the dark recesses of history. The authors, conscious of inefficiency of contemporary culture, used the idea of Demiurge to show one of possible creating ideas.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
- Issue Year: 45/2017
- Issue No: 7
- Page Range: 83-112
- Page Count: 30
- Language: English