Bruno Schulz czyta Conrada

Abstract

The work focuses on intertextual links between Brunon Schulz’s prose with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The evidence of those interconnections is to be found in the story Karakony, which can be read as a grotesque replica of the core theme of Heart of Darkness, namely “the fascination of the abomination”, which leads Kurtz to the primitive animal condition. The article devoted to Schulz’s prose contributes to the research on the reception of Conrad’s literary output in the avant-garde Polish literature during the inter-war period.