Konstruowanie przestrzeni miasta w "Sklepach cynamonowych" Brunona Schulza
The Construction of Urban Space in "Sklepy cynamonowe" by Bruno Schulz

Summary/Abstract: The article intends to characterise the manner in which urban space is constructed in The Cinnamon Shops. The applied method of analysis refers to general premises of studying the unique cultural contents proposed by Clifford Geertz. The concepts accepted as points of departure for analysis include those of space formulated in humanistic geography (Yi Fu Tuan) and anthropology (Marc Augé), perceived as spatiality, place, and non-place. Analysis indicates that the Schulzian construction of town space consists of the creation of an anti-archetype of the place, which originates from the fact that the author treated features typical for space as its modality. Schulz also indicated the multi-strata nature of space built by the rules of the visual nature and changeability of perspective as well as its multi-dimensional character – the result of a modal description of the town’s features.

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