Bruno Schulz

Nació 1892 · Murió 1942

De Drohobych, Lwów Voivodeship, Ukraine · Nacionalidad: Austria–Hungary, Second Polish Republic

Citas

“An infernal storm-cloud of feathers, wings, and screeches flew up, in the midst of which, Adela, looking like a furious mænad, half-obscured by the spinning of her thyrsus, danced a dance of destruction.”
Adela the domestic servantEn inglés
“Adela’s outstretched slipper shook slightly and shone like a snake’s tongue.”
Adela the domestic servantEn inglés
“Have you ever noticed flocks of swallows flying past between the lines of certain books, whole verses of trembling, pointed swallows? One must interpret the flights of those birds...”
BooksEn inglés
“Ah, life, young and fragile life, sent forth from the dependable darkness, from the snug warmth of the maternal womb into a vast, unfamiliar and illuminated world! How it flinches and draws back, filled with aversion and discouragement! How it hesitates to accept the venture proposed to it!”
Living thingsEn inglés
“Like a silver astrolabe, the sky had opened up that night its bewitching internal mechanism, exhibiting in endless cycles the gilded mathematics of its cogs and wheels.”
The heavensEn inglés

Los libros de Bruno Schulz en el orden en que se publicaron, de Le livre idolâtre (2004) a Collected Stories (2018).