[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f0eObh0IvxEb6FW0TuTTXiFZMrjG-zLAMknToEDI9HCk":3,"$frECFGZwiX0wnD6rbk_6iXNcBRXinpYxDmmd5rAloW7s":14},{"author":4,"tags":13},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"slug":11,"image_url":12},13415,"Bruno Schulz","B",57,"Bruno Schulz was born on 12 July 1892 in Drohobych, a town in what was then Austria–Hungary. Over the course of his life, the political ground beneath him shifted repeatedly, and he passed through citizenship of Austria–Hungary, the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Ukrainian People's Republic, and the Second Polish Republic — a sequence that reflected the wider instability reshaping Central and Eastern Europe across the early decades of the twentieth century.\n\nSchulz worked as a writer, literary critic, graphic artist, painter, and draftsperson, and he produced his written work in the Polish language. He studied at Lviv University. His fiction includes two notable works: The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. For his literary contributions, he received the Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature, one of the significant recognitions available to writers working in Polish at the time.\n\nAlongside his writing and literary criticism, Schulz also practiced as a graphic artist, painter, and draftsperson. These visual pursuits ran in parallel with his work as a writer throughout his career, giving the body of work he produced an unusual range across both written and visual forms.\n\nSchulz died in 1942 in the Drohobych Ghetto — the same town where he had been born fifty years earlier. The exact date given in the historical record varies between sources, with 19 November appearing in some accounts. His death brought to a close a career that had spanned writing, literary criticism, and the visual arts, all conducted within the shifting political and geographic circumstances that had defined his life from birth.","Bruno Schulz was born on 12 July 1892 in Drohobych, a town in what was then Austria–Hungary. Over the course of his life, the political ground beneath him shifted repeatedly, and he passed through citizenship of Austria–Hungary, the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Ukrainian People's Republic, and the Second Polish Republic — a sequence that reflected the wider instability reshaping Central and Eastern Europe across the early decades of the twentieth century.","bruno-schulz",null,[],{"quotes":15,"pagination":79},[16,24,30,36,43,49,55,61,67,73],{"id":17,"quote_text":18,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":21,"source":22,"quote_tag":23,"commentary":12},2903985,"There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets. One’s imagination, bewitched and misled, creates illusory maps of the apparently familiar districts, maps in which the streets have their proper places and usual names but are provided with new and fictitious configurations by the inexhaustible inventiveness of the night.",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":25,"quote_text":26,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":27,"source":28,"quote_tag":29,"commentary":12},2903976,"I harbored in my mind a sort of utopia about ‘an age of genius’ that supposedly existed in my life once upon a time, not in any calendar year but on a level above chronology, an age when everything blazed with godly colors and one took in the whole sky with a single breath, like a gulp of pure ultramarine.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":31,"quote_text":32,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":33,"source":34,"quote_tag":35,"commentary":12},2903975,"On that night the sky laid bare its internal construction in many sections which, like quasi-anatomical exhibits, showed the spirals and whorls of light, the pale-green solids of darkness, the plasma of space, the tissue of dreams.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":37,"quote_text":38,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":39,"source":40,"quote_tag":41,"commentary":42},2903965,"For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its pages aflame. For that single moment we love them ever after, although they soon turn to ashes. With bitter resignation we sometimes wander late at night through the extinct pages that tell their stone dead messages like wooden rosary beads.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],"**The Backstory**\n\nBruno Schulz, a Polish writer and painter, penned these words in his essay \"On the Threshold of Profundity\" (1934). At that time, Schulz was struggling with censorship and oppression under the Polish Second Republic, which would have likely influenced his perspective on the fleeting nature of creative expression.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nThe quote reveals a profound ambivalence towards artistic endeavors. On one hand, Schulz extols the momentary brilliance of creative works, likening them to meteors that briefly illuminate the night sky before fading into oblivion. However, he simultaneously criticizes the tendency to romanticize these ephemeral creations, reducing their significance to \"stone dead messages\" and \"wooden rosary beads\" devoid of true meaning.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nWhen embarking on a new creative project, resist the temptation to idolize it as an infallible masterpiece. Instead, acknowledge its inherent ephemerality and strive for a humble acceptance that your work will eventually lose its luster. By doing so, you can maintain a sense of detachment and continue to evolve your craft without becoming too invested in any one project's success or failure.\n\nAs a Behavioral Psychologist, I'd like to add that this mindset also applies to the concept of \"sunk cost fallacy.\" Recognizing that creative endeavors are inherently ephemeral allows individuals to let go of emotional attachment and focus on continuous improvement rather than defending their work at all costs.",{"id":44,"quote_text":45,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":46,"source":47,"quote_tag":48,"commentary":12},2903951,"If, forgetting the respect due to the Creator, I were to attempt a criticism of creation, I would say ‘Less matter, more form!",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":50,"quote_text":51,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":52,"source":53,"quote_tag":54,"commentary":12},2903930,"The books we read in childhood don’t exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":56,"quote_text":57,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":58,"source":59,"quote_tag":60,"commentary":12},2903920,"How can one not succumb and allow one’s courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":62,"quote_text":63,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":64,"source":65,"quote_tag":66,"commentary":12},2903884,"And one’s wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":68,"quote_text":69,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":70,"source":71,"quote_tag":72,"commentary":12},2903875,"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year’s loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":74,"quote_text":75,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":76,"source":77,"quote_tag":78,"commentary":12},2903866,"An event may be small and insignificant in its origin, and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"currentPage":80,"totalPages":19,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":81},1,10]