Tourist Criticism

A Guide to Bruno Schulz [Bruno Schulz. Przewodnik], published by Krytyka Polityczna, could be an opportunity to shed some new light on the writer’s work, but it turns out a failure. Even though the publisher believes that Schulz’s fiction and drawings are a challenge to the human sciences, the essays included in the volume are superficial and disappointing. The reviewer analyzes particular elements of the collection – interpretive essays on Schulz’s fiction, film studies, and short stories and comics based on Schulz’s works – to conclude that they are inadequate and, as regards the comics and short stories, quite expendable