Abstract
The article studies metamorphoses of time and space in the prose by Bruno Schultz and Goran Petrović. The novel entitled Sundries Shop “At The Lucky Hands” (Sitničarnica “Kod srećne ruke”) was chosen due to the typological similarity of its title to the first book of short stories by the Polish classic (Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe)). Shops mysteriously appear and mysteriously disappear, and these are the places where one of the key mysteries of the works’ poetics is hidden. Another Schultz’s place of mystery is the book as a parallel world, as well as oneiric spaces that are difficult to separate from the realms of reality. The writers also have another thing in common – the art of depicting an unusual version of the world, the won- der of textual space, levelling the boundaries between reality and sleep. The article investigates the functions of Schultz’s places of mystery (shop, garden, Book) in Goran Petrović’s Sundries Shop “At The Lucky Hands”. Examining Schultz and Petrović’s places of mystery we conclude that their secret is con- nected with the mystery of time, which flows according to special laws. We are looking for a possible answer in the Serial Time Theory by the English soldier, aeronautical engineer and phi- losopher John William Dunne, presented in the study entitled An Experiment with Time (1927).
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