Filozofia osobowości w “Sklepach cynamonowych” Brunona Schulza
The Philosophy of Personality in “Sklepy cynamonowe” by Bruno Schulz

Summary/Abstract: The author deliberates on the specificity of comprehending personality in Sklepy cynamonowe (The Cinnamon Shops) by Bruno Schulz. The work in question was presented as artistic reflection on the consequences of the spiritual world of man abandoned by God. In Schulz’s dylogy we perceive the phenomenon of abandonment by God in a paradoxical manner – via polytheism revealing itself according to the principle of a negation of hierarchy. In such a situation, man resorts to a sui generis provocation of the absolute, which reveals itself in a dialogue. Bruno Schulz demonstrated how in the case of the absence of God the possibility of creating a new world and a new life spreads within matter and every person desires demiurgy. Gradually, there emerges the image of a personal world involving the existence of an eternal formation in accordance with the will of the creative personality; this formation is depicted as eternal existence. Its fabric is created by things and natural components of reality containing a distinctive spiritual essence and experiencing their separate lives. This principle expresses the unstable character of the surrounding world – its split. At the same time, the unity of life divided into numerous small lives remains essentially indestructible and unchanging in each of them. This is precisely the reason why personality becomes dispersed across the world and affiliated with natural reality. The author conceived the subject in a holistic, synthetic, and prompt reception, which produces the effect of renascence that restores the idea of omniunity rejected by rationalists. Upon the basis of an analysis of the subjective organisation of Schulz’s oeuvre the author of the article proposes a conception of the alienation of personality as a way of its self-fulfilment.

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