Reviews

Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz by Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski

rbreade's review

Fascinating correspondence between Schulz and other members of Eastern Europe's artistic society, shadowed by the oncoming disaster of World War II: so many of the editorial annotations describing these letters and their writers end with some version of "Died in [name of concentration camp]" and "Shot by Ukrainian militia." Contains an eyewitness account of Schulz's murder in the Drogobych ghetto by a Nazi officer, because a rival Nazi officer liked Schulz's pen and ink drawings.

Also contains Schulz's ars poetica as well as his sublime "Republic of Dreams," an essay that lovingly captures his relationship to childhood, particularly as it nourishes his fiction.

michasia347's review

3.0

3 stars