Ptaki

by Bruno Schulz

Genres: Classics, School

4 pages, ebook

About the author

Bruno Schulz was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher of Jewish descent. He was regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century.

At a very early age, Schulz developed an interest in the arts. He studied at a gymnasium in Drohobycz from 1902 to 1910, and proceeded to study architecture at Lwów University. In 1917 he briefly studied architecture in Vienna. After World War I, the region of Galicia which included Drohobycz became a Polish territory. In the postwar period, Schulz came to teach drawing in a Polish gymnasium, from 1924 to 1941. His employment kept him in his hometown, although he disliked his profession as a schoolteacher, apparently maintaining it only because it was his sole means of income.

The author nurtured his extraordinary imagination in a swarm of identities and nationalities: a Jew who thought and wrote in Polish, was fluent in German, and immersed in Jewish culture though unfamiliar with the Yiddish language. Yet there was nothing cosmopolitan about him; his genius fed in solitude on specific local and ethnic sources. He preferred not to leave his provincial hometown, which over the course of his life belonged to four countries. His adult life was often perceived by outsiders as that of a hermit: uneventful and enclosed.

Schulz seems to have become a writer by chance, as he was discouraged by influential colleagues from publishing his first short stories. His aspirations were refreshed, however, when several letters that he wrote to a friend, in which he gave highly original accounts of his solitary life and the details of the lives of his fellow citizens, were brought to the attention of the novelist Zofia Nałkowska. She encouraged Schulz to have them published as short fiction, and The Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy Cynamonowe) was published in 1934; in English-speaking countries, it is most often referred to as The Street of Crocodiles, a title derived from one of the chapters. This novel-memoir was followed three years later by Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą). The original publications were fully illustrated by Schulz himself; in later editions of his works, however, these illustrations are often left out or are poorly reproduced. He also helped his fiancée translate Franz Kafka's The Trial into Polish, in 1936. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy of Literature's prestigious Golden Laurel award.

The outbreak of World War II in 1939 caught Schulz living in Drohobycz, which was occupied by the Soviet Union. There are reports that he worked on a novel called The Messiah, but no trace of this manuscript survived his death. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, as a Jew he was forced to live in the ghetto of Drohobycz, but he was temporarily protected by Felix Landau, a Gestapo officer who admired his drawings. During the last weeks of his life, Schulz painted a mural in Landau's home in Drohobycz, in the style with which he is identified. Shortly after completing the work, Schulz was bringing home a loaf of bread when he was shot and killed by a German officer, Karl Günther, a rival of his protector (Landau had killed Günther's "personal Jew," a dentist). Over the years his mural was covered with paint and forgotten.

Source: wikipedia.com

Reviews

[Nslsbsjkab · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rozumiem ojca

[Lou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pierwszy furas

[lenka · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5
interesujaca, podobalo mi sie

[meliotae · Rating 2 out of 5]

też czasami wolałabym żyć z ptakami

[Elliot Otfinowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Strasznie mi imponuje zamysł na niektóre z autora opowieści, zastanawia mnie jedynie czy jego umysł bywał choć na moment trzeźwo myślący.

[Nasia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tak samo tutaj 3,5 ⭐
Mój stary to fanatyk ptaków

[Ⰰⱃⰿⰰⱀⰴ Ⱆⰾⰴⰵⱃⰻⰽⱁ Ⱅⰵⱄⰾⰰ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dositej
Beograd, 1989.
Preveo Stojan Subotin
Sjajna modernistička bizarna priča.
Na razini fantazofskih Matoševih prozica.
Razigrana, lepršava i jednostavno čudački čudnovata na čudesan način.
Jezik je relativno osrednji, ostvaruje snažnije zamahe u određenim kaotičnim scenama.
Sadržajno ova tekstualna ptičica budi u mom umu sjećanje na jedan odličan i fantazofski hrvatski modernistički roman; https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... Pročitajte svakako roman iz bačene poveznice!
Kafkijanska kreativnost, cervantesovska razigranost, hoffmannovska vibra; ova novela je sjajna!
Paradigmatski primjer fantazofstva!
Pročitajte!
¡Hasta luego mis murcielagos!

[aleksandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah, te ptaki takie frasujące, że zamiast rozwinąć skrzydła ludzkiego umysłu, zgniotły potencjał Ojca. Wręcz połamały kości i ogołociły z piór, przez co wyglądał jak marna imitacja czegoś pomiędzy człowiekiem a ptakiem.

[Lia · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesująca.

[Martyna · Rating 5 out of 5]

zabawne, nigdy nie wiedziałam że można tak opisywać ptaki

[jagodasbooks · Rating 1 out of 5]

school read

[weronika · Rating 5 out of 5]

:'((((

[zuzia · Rating 4 out of 5]

ojciec niezla faza

[Heart Hear Art · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bo to był artysta, artysta nierozumiany.
Moment, w którym Adela sprząta strych, złamie serca co wrażliwszych jednostek.

W tym świecie nie ma miejsca na myślenie nieszablonowe, jest tylko jedną droga, którą możesz podążać.

I albo sam wrócisz na „właściwe” tory, albo ci w tym „pomogą”. A Ty, niewdzięczniku, jak możesz mieć im to za złe?

Szkoda, że nie udało mu się odlecieć…
Opowiadanie szczególnie poruszające dla artystów.

[Sernik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ostatnie kilka zdań były tak piękne.

[Kokosanka · Rating 3 out of 5]

What the f ja nie wierzyłam, że Sklepy cynamonowe są serio takie crazy ale już na starcie ojciec, który ma orgazm przez patrzenie na córke??? Co jest nie tak z lekturami na rozszerzeniu