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Article: The Heresiarch of Dreams.(Regions of the Great Heresy: a Biographical Portrait of Bruno Schulz)(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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Regions of the Great Heresy: A Biographical Portrait of Bruno Schulz, by Jerzy Ficowski; Norton, 2003, about $40.
BRUNO SCHULZ, the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, was born in 1892 in the Galician town of Drohobycz, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. His father ran a haberdashery shop; the family was comfortably off, secular and fairly well assimilated. In 1915, Schulz's father Jacob died, and Drohobycz's marketplace, including his father's shop, was flattened by the Russian army. This was the great divide in Schulz's life. Unlike Kafka, to whom he bears some resemblance, he doted on his father. All his subsequent writings were to become a mythological ...