Bruno Schulz

Naissance 1892 · Décès 1942

Originaire de Drohobych, Lwów Voivodeship, Ukraine · Nationalité : Austria–Hungary, Second Polish Republic

Citations

“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 anglais
“Adela’s outstretched slipper shook slightly and shone like a snake’s tongue.”
Adela the domestic servantEn anglais
“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 anglais
“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 anglais
“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 anglais

Les livres de Bruno Schulz dans l'ordre de parution, de Le livre idolâtre (2004) à Collected Stories (2018).