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Bruno Schulz · 1937
A surrealist novel of fragmented memories and dreamlike episodes centered on the narrator's search for a mysterious, transcendent Book from childhood, blending philosophical meditation with fantastical imagery and digressive narratives.
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What this book knows
Reality is myth's dream of itself: Schulz shows how imagination devours time, identity, and the visible world from within.
mortality
Only by the solidarity of forbearance, by a communal averting of eyes, could this pitiful semblance of life maintain itself within the tissue of reality.
SUSH-RC-097Columbaria, the drawers for the dead, in which they lie desiccated, blackened like roots, awaiting their moment.
SUSH-RC-033self-and-identity
Despite the promptings of my ambition, I have only been a usurper. I undertook to comment on the text, to be the interpreter of God.
SUSH-RC-061Just when we had given up hope, you opened before me that stamp album—who will hold it against me that I stood blinded, weak?
SUSH-RC-025transformation
Behind each wing that is moved new and radiant scenes open up, true and alive for a moment, until you realize they are made of cardboard.
SUSH-RC-077That short interval is enough to shift the scenery, to liquidate the great enterprise of the night and all its dark fantastic pomp.
SUSH-RC-069Illuminates
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