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Bruno Schulz

>>18508859
No, no there isn't.
It warms my heart a little bit to know I'm not the only one shilling him anymore.

>>16217640
I have explicitly stated that I am the resident Bruno Schulz shill in previous threads. I will fight you if I must.

I will take every opportunity to shill Bruno Schulz until this board loves him as much as I do.
>>15765468
I haven't read this but I did love Point Counterpoint. I haven't read Brave New World so it may be better than I'm assuming it is, but it makes me sad that Huxley is mostly remembered as high school reading now.

I will continuously and shamelessly shill Bruno Schulz until he becomes a self-sustaining meme on this board or die trying

Bruno Schulz

I will shill Bruno Schulz at any possible opportunity. A Polish surrealist whose only novel was lost after he got shot in the head. All that survives him are two collections of short stories, this one being from The Street of Crocodiles.

>>14708335
Bruno Schulz is the best surrealist I've ever read. He got shot in the back of the head by the Gestapo.

>>14388355
>>14388371
Here is the first page of one of the short stories from the first collection. The narrator's father finds a book filled with paintings of tropical birds, obsesses over it, they come to life and fill the attic, and his father steadily turns into one (or at least thinks he is). It's not even a particularly magic book or anything, that's just the way all books work in his stories - there's no real line between their contents and the world. Metaphors start as wordplay and then take concrete form all the time as well. I really like it.

Bruno Schulz

I thought he was until I read Bruno Schulz
I feel like Schulz isn't really for everyone because it's very hard to nail down the point of what the fuck he's talking about but his prose is some of the most consistently beautiful I've ever read, The Street of Crocodiles is the greatest masterpiece of surrealism I've ever read