“For me, Bruno Schulz is one of the greatest heretics of modernist world literature. When I was in Cracow for the first time and read original editions of his publishings, I thought of heresy as of a tool allowing to grasp hidden outlines of reality. But what does heresy mean today? And what does it deny? In his book titled Heretic Essays in the Philosophy of History, Jan Patočka assumes that darkness and disaster constitute the spiritus movements of history. Similarly, we are forced to perceive catastrophe as an integral part of our time. And what may be a catastrophe greater than when a man ceases to exist? Maybe only the fact of a human being becoming a dead doll, an inanimate mannequin presenting clothes for sale.”

Petr Boháč | source: kulturalna.warszawa.pl/wydarzenia…