PHYSIOLOGY AND MYSTIQUE – THE BODIES OF BRUNO SCHULZ
The article concerns the close-knit relationship between the physiologically perceived human body and the mystical vision of the world which appears in Bruno Schulz’s literary creation. The search for an artistic formula for joining the opposites – the pungent, bestial nature of the earthly life and its cabalistic roots – characterizes the tension in Schulz’s writing, at the same time being a reaction to the crisis of the humanistic conception of man. In its creative, original remaking, it captures the Jewish tradition as well as elements of the Polish interwar avant-garde.

The article concerns the close-knit relationship between the physiologically perceived human body and the mystical vision of the world which appears in Bruno Schulz’s literary creation. The search for an artistic formula for joining the opposites – the pungent, bestial nature of the earthly life and its cabalistic roots – characterizes the tension in Schulz’s writing, at the same time being a reaction to the crisis of the humanistic conception of man. In its creative, original remaking, it captures the Jewish tradition as well as elements of the Polish interwar avant-garde.