Bruno Schulz: Between Avant-Garde and Hasidic Redemption

Alfred Sproede

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Bruno Schulz: Between Avant-Garde and Hasidic Redemption

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Pages:: 473–498

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789042026957_024

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Bruno Schulz’s stories have been repeatedly interpreted in the context of Judaism. Instead of tracing further parallels pointing to the Old Testament, kabbalah, or other written sources, this article investigates less dignified, even partly ostracized, popular strands of East European Jewish culture. The new focus is on a set of customs and rites that are strikingly consonant with Schulz’s euphoric tales and their narrative enactment. In fact, the central source (Sitz im Leben) of the narrative “gestures” by which the author tries, as it were, to “charm” his imagined audience is “Hasidic celebration” – forms of semi-religious, semi-mundane festivity specific to Galician Jewish communities.

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(Un)masking Bruno Schulz

New Combinations, Further Fragmentations, Ultimate Reintegrations

Series: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Volume: 54 and Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics Online, Volume: 54

E-Book ISBN:: 9789042026957

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2009

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Slavic

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