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Bruno Schulz · 1934
A collection of interconnected stories set in the provincial Polish town of Drogobych, centered on the author's childhood memories and the eccentric figure of his father, blending surrealism, psychological depth, and poetic prose to resurrect a lost world.
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Matter itself dreams, decays, and proliferates meaning; the visible world is mythology barely held in human shape.
embodiment
Adela returned from the market, like Pomona emerging from the flames of day, spilling from her basket the colorful beauty of the sun.
SCB-RC-010These creatures—mobile, sensitive to stimuli, and yet outside the pale of real life—could be brought forth from matter equipped with memory, repeating forms from force of habit.
SCB-RC-035desire
He ascribed to all her functions a deeper, symbolic meaning. Tears would stream from his eyes, silent laughter transformed his face, shaken by spasms of delight.
SCB-RC-023Adela stood idly on the balcony looking vacantly at the pale redness of the evening distance, her beautiful eyes blank from dull reveries, large and shining.
SCB-RC-086mortality
The stuffed condor stood on a shelf, its eyes fallen out and sawdust scattered from the washed-out tear-stained sockets, face petrified in extreme indifference and abnegation.
SCB-RC-062Father knew a secret escape from our trap, the back door of cosmology. He put his head into the chimney shaft and sat blissfully, his eyes closed.
SCB-RC-090Illuminates
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