ВІД МІСЬКИХ ЛАБІРИНТІВ ДО ЗАКАМАРКІВ ПІДСВІДОМОСТІ («ВУЛИЦЯ КРОКОДИЛІВ» БРУНО ШУЛЬЦА)

Abstract

The article examines one of the key stories of Bruno Schultz’s collection «Cinnamon Shops» in the context of the aesthetic originality of the prose of the Polish modernist novelist, his ontology and poetics. Focusing on the whimsical nature of imagery, the word’s ability to creative demiurge, the synthesis of the spiritual and the material quite logically leads to the idea of ​​ Schulz’s ontological borderline. It is from this point of view that the artistic time-space of «Crocodile Street» is interpreted as the compositional and content center of the collection. Emphasis is placed on the multidimensional function of Schultz’s word, which is closely related to autobiography, intergenerational memory, the collective unconscious, and the theory of archetypes. The connection of the word with the poetics of form creation is traced, and the naming is considered from the point of view of the sacralization of the depicted objects, their correlation with the biblical acts of world creation. The phenomenon of «annexation of the subconscious», its influence on words, ideas as constructs of the author’s representation of the world is singled out. The images of a store, warehouses, and a labyrinth are correlated with the subconscious, the most secret recesses of the human soul. No less important is the connection with the cultural space, cartographic images of the Baroque, graphic art and critical self-reflections of the writer. The palimpsest of the urban space, the presence of different cultural traditions and everyday anthropological practices in it are studied. The connection between the images of the story and the typical Schultz concepts of puppetry, marionette behavior, the psychology of mimicry, adaptation to the situation is traced. The ambivalence of the author’s world, built on the game of verbal plans, balancing between the real and the unreal, the sphere of denotations and techniques of representation, is proven.