Regions of the Great Heresy Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait [Paperback]

Sixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experiencing a renaissance in part occasioned by this biography by the renowned Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski. Widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on Schulz, Ficowski reconstructs the author's life story and evokes the fictional vision of his best-known works,Without Ficowski there would be no Schulz, just as without Max Brod, there would be no Kafka.Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers....[His] verbal art strikes usstuns, evenwith its overload of beauty. A prolonged labor of love [and] a model of a kind of penetrating adoration. Richard Bernstein,