Summary
Jerzy Ficowski: Bruno Schulz. Regions of great heresy
It is difficult to find a bigger admirer and collector of "knowledge" about the Polish writer Bruna Schulz than his countryman Jerzy Ficowski. As an eighteen-year-old boy, Ficowski met Schulz's best-known novel "The Cinnamon Shops" in 1942. Fascinated, he writes him a letter in which he calls him "the greatest writer of our time". When he realizes that he sent the letter too late and that Schulz has already died from a Nazi bullet in his hometown of Drohobycz, young Ficowski addresses the letter to none other than himself. He calls the brochure printed on thirty pages "Regions of great heresy". It will grow and expand over the years, with even more details about Schulz's life, family circumstances, correspondence with friends and acquaintances, and the professor's everyday life. In a lifelong project of collecting the heritage of Schulz's character and work, Ficowski will lead the way from America to Russia, but he will seek answers again in the provincial Drohobycz, a small town where Schulz was known as a modest high school drawing teacher, but also where he became one of the world's greatest writers of the 20th century.
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