Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Bruno Schulz
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Letters, reviews, and narrative prose
- Time of Work: 1921-1941
- Setting: Primarily Drohobycz, Poland
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Twentieth century, 1940’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Letters, Poland or Polish people, Drawing
- Locales: Poland
A once-powerful nation that has been overrun, several times partitioned out of existence, and, during World War II, very nearly erased from the face of the earth altogether—its schools closed, its language forbidden, its culture destroyed, its capital razed, its population systematically murdered—Poland has learned to guard its history jealously, seeking to recover and preserve its past in order to perpetuate the essence of its own fragile being. Not surprisingly, the Romantic strain is especially strong in Polish life, in its arts (Adam Mickiewicz and Frédéric Chopin, for...
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