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Bruno Shulʹt͡s (1892-1942) - odin iz samykh zagadochnykh prozaikov polʹskoĭ literatury XX veka. Skromnomu uchiteli͡u risovanii͡a iz provint͡sialʹnogo Drogobycha khvatilo dvukh tonkikh knig, chtoby obresti posmertnui͡u mirovui͡u slavu: Shulʹt͡sa sravnivai͡ut s Kafkoĭ i Prustom, vidi͡at v nem predtechu magicheskogo realizma, a Cheslav Milosh nazyval ego odnim iz velichaĭshikh polʹskikh stilistov. V 1942 godu pisatelʹ byl zastrelen gestapovskim ofit͡serom na ulit͡se rodnogo goroda. Poėtika Shulʹt͡sa stroitsi͡a na mifologizat͡sii povsednevnosti. Provint͡sialʹnyĭ byt, ott͡sovskai͡a lavka, zabroshennyĭ sad priobretai͡ut masshtab kosmogonii: materii͡a zdesʹ zhiva i podatliva, manekeny nadeleny taĭnoĭ zhiznʹi͡u, a bezumie ott͡sa oborachivaetsi͡a metafizicheskim buntom protiv nesovershennogo demiurga. Shulʹt͡s sozdaet plotnui͡u, chuvstvennui͡u, barochnui͡u prozu, v kotoroĭ granit͡sa mezhdu chelovekom i veshchʹi͡u, i͡avʹi͡u i videniem stiraetsi͡a, otkryvai͡a istinnui͡u rodinu dush - "respubliku mechty". V knigu voshli oba prizhiznennykh sbornika - "Korichnye lavochki" (1934) i "Sanatoriĭ pod Klepsidroĭ" (1937), a takzhe neizdannai͡a proza, ėsse i pisʹma, v tom chisle perepiska Stanislavom Ignat͡siem Vitkevichem.

Bruno Schultz (1892-1942) is one of the most mysterious prose writers of Polish literature of the 20th century. Two thin books were enough for a modest art teacher from provincial Drohobych to gain posthumous world fame: Schultz is compared to Kafka and Proust, they see in him the forerunner of magical realism, and Czeslaw Milos called him one of the greatest Polish stylists. In 1942, the writer was shot dead by a Gestapo officer on the street of his hometown. Schultz's poetics is based on the mythologization of everyday life. Provincial life, his father's shop, and an abandoned garden acquire the scale of cosmogony: matter here is alive and pliable, mannequins are endowed with secret life, and his father's madness turns into a metaphysical rebellion against an imperfect demiurge. Schultz creates dense, sensual, baroque prose in which the boundary between man and thing, reality and vision is blurred, revealing the true homeland of souls - the "republic of dreams". The book includes both lifetime collections - "Cinnamon Shops" (1934) and "Sanatorium near Klepsidra" (1937), as well as unpublished prose, essays and letters, including correspondence with Stanislav Ignacy Vitkevich.