ПРОФЕСІЙНА ІДЕНТИФІКАЦІЯ МИТЦЯ-УНІВЕРСАЛІСТА БРУНО ШУЛЬЦА

Abstract

The breadth and variety of creative (and not only) interests of the outstanding artist of the Galician borderlands, Bruno Schulz, is impressive, and in each of the areas, sometimes quite distant from each other, the master managed to reach great heights. The binary professional identification of Bruno Schulz as a writer and an artist is customary. Almost all of us know little about Bruno Schulz’s other professional roles, including a literary critic, excellent essayist, and even philosopher, etc., which are organically combined in one personality of the world-famous artist from the Ukrainian town of Drohobych. Obviously, the problem needs working out separately. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to determine the place of Bruno Schulz in professional cartography thanks to ontologization, systematization, and theoretical generalization of the relevant factual information from investigations of the Schulz direction. The article collects and systematizes information about the professional identification of Bruno Schulz, thanks to which the traditional binary identification turns into a multiple one. There exists the original “catalog of professions” of the artist Bruno Schulz, which includes writing, painting, and some other professional positions of Schulz (a graphic artist, epistolographer, painter, illustrator, literary critic, thinker, educator, translator, writer, novelist, publicist, draftsman, literary theorist, teacher, etc.), as well as those which, due to objective circumstances, did not become equal to them (an architect, decorator, journalist, memoirist, scientist, sculptor, etc.), and the so-called figuratively defined professions of the artist (a fiction writer in painting, chronicler, maestro, master of the Polish word, Socrates, artist in literature, organ grinder, etc.). There are two varieties in the catalog: alphabetical and subject-systematic. The author considers it promising to study the problem of Bruno Schulz’s belonging to the cultural and artistic space of this or that state (the place of the artist in the national cartography) both by well-known Schulz scholars, translators, and novice scientists or ordinary admirers of the artist in the Schulz scientific and popular scientific discourse, – problems, which still remains debatable in modern Schulz studies.