Open AccessMiejsca bezpieczne: Kafka, Walser, Schulz
Author(s) -
Marek Wilczyński
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
schulz forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-1778
pISSN - 2300-5823
DOI - 10.26881/sf.2018.11.06
Subject(s) - homeland , german , burrow , literature , point (geometry) , art , history , philosophy , linguistics , law , political science , paleontology , geometry , mathematics , politics , biology
The paper begins with a reference to Franz Kafka’s unfinished long short story “The Burrow,” which has been chosen as a starting point of a series of intertextual associations focusing on futile efforts made by various modernist literary narrators and characters to find a sense of safety in some specific settings. The route from “The Burrow” runs through selected short stories by Martin Walser toward late fiction by Bruno Schulz, in particular “The Republic of Dreams” and “The Homeland,” revealing affinities connecting the Polish writer from Drogobych with two writers of the German language, who shared his fears and obsessions.