Droga do domu, czyli podróż oniryczna po schulzowskim domu wspomnień

Abstract

The paper is a detailed discussion of the space of the Schulz’s home. Thanks to the poetics of a dream, it becomes a place from which the author of Cinnamon Shops “sends” the characters on a journey to past years. The way leads through successive rooms to finally push them over the threshold out of the domesticated territory. It is here that the expedition into the unknown begins, overcoming fears, first fascinations with the outside world, and domesticating a new territory. The journey around home spreads to the whole town described in the first volume of Brunon Schulz’s stories, at the same time, assuming symbolic and mythical meaning. In the paper, the author refers to the theory of space and the onerique image of Gaston Bachelard’s home, and to the studies by Jerzy Jastrzębski, which constitute the point of departure to further deliberations in that direction.