Bruno Schulz Quotes


Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.


Citations

Schulz, Bruno. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Translated by Celina Wieniewska, Penguin Books, 1979.

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Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz
  • Born: July 12, 1892
  • Died: November 19, 1942
  • Nationality: Polish
  • Profession: Writer, Fine Artist, Literary Critic, Art Teacher

Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy of Literature's prestigious Golden Laurel award. Several of Schulz's works were lost in the Holocaust, including short stories from the early 1940s and his final, unfinished novel The Messiah. Schulz was shot and killed by a German Nazi, a Gestapo officer, in 1942 while walking back home toward Drohobycz Ghetto with a loaf of bread.