[HN Gopher] Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking...
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Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
Author : drdee
Score : 29 points
Date : 2023-05-18 06:04 UTC (1 days ago)
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| john-tells-all wrote:
| "Street of Crocodiles" is wonderful! Surreal and wistful and
| touching.
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| Quay brothers adapted his The Street of Crocodiles into a lovely
| enigmatic work of art short film
| badpun wrote:
| I saw the exposition of their movie sets (basically incredible
| dollhouses and puppets) in New York's MoMA. Much more
| intersting and beautiful than the movie itself IMO.
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| The movie's a masterpiece
| pmoriarty wrote:
| This is how I learned of his work and became a life-long fan of
| both Bruno Schultz and the Brothers Quay.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
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| _The Odd Knight of the Cinnamon Shops_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35551549 - April 2023 (2
| comments)
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| _Bruno Schulz's Dream Worlds_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20567928 - July 2019 (1
| comment)
| tptacek wrote:
| Street of Crocodiles used to be in your bio here. Any advice on
| where to start?
| dang wrote:
| His writing is a drug - you can inhale any of it and get
| sucked into his fractal dream world pretty quickly. Literary
| DMT?
|
| That's also an evasive way of saying I don't remember what my
| favorites are and don't have the books handy. But there are
| only two of them and they aren't long.
| tptacek wrote:
| This won't be helpful to anybody, least of all you, but I'm
| like 2 stories in ("August" and "Visitation") and this is
| so Neutral Milk Hotel that I sort of assume Jeff Mangum
| stole all his lyrics from Schulz.
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| To anyone else here: you can get Street of Crocodiles off
| the Internet Archive and it's a quick read (at least so
| far).
| dang wrote:
| I have a fantasy that one day his lost novel _The
| Messiah_ will be discovered under a floorboard or behind
| some crumbling plaster in Drohobych.
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| Either that or (second best) someone else will tune into
| it and write something crazy about what it was and how it
| dissolved into the cosmos.
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| The thing about Schulz's writing is the unbearably
| poignant specificity of where and when he lived.
| Imaginative genius refracted through that specificity is
| the magic. And that world is gone. I suppose it died the
| moment that he did.
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