An Old Paper, an Artifact, a Phantasm. The Map in “The Street of Crocodiles” Cover Image

Szpargał, artefakt, fantazmat. Mapa w „Ulicy Krokodyli”
An Old Paper, an Artifact, a Phantasm. The Map in “The Street of Crocodiles”

Author(s): Maciej Dajnowski
Subject(s): Maps / Cartography, Comparative Study of Literature, Polish Literature, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Culture and social structure , Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Fundacja Terytoria Książki
Keywords: Bruno Schulz;Polish Literature;Literary Theory;Cultural Space;Cartography literary;Melancholy;

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the map which is a motif that organizes a large part or even the whole of “The Street of Crocodiles,” a short story by Bruno Schulz. It is an analysis of a series of transformations of a map into an etching, a photo, an architectural drawing, and an icon, as well as the changes of its focalization and coloring. Inspirations have been drawn from critical cartography, the Deleuzian idea of the fold, studies by Svetlana Alpers and Georges Didi-Hubermana, Freudian psychoanalysis and its continuation by Torok and Abraham, and the theories of melancholy.

  • Issue Year: 11/2018
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 7-29
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English, Polish