Author: Bruno Schulz

Cited by

• China Miéville (2)
  • IN: The City & the City (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Deep inside the town there open up, so to speak, double streets, doppelgänger streets, mendacious and delusive streets
    FROM: The Cinnamon Shops and other stories, (1934), Book, Poland
  • IN: The City and the City (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Deep inside the town there open up, so to speak, double streets, doppelganger streets, mendacious and delusive streets.
    FROM: The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories, (1934), Book, Poland
• Cynthia Ozick (2)
  • IN: The Mesiah of Stockholm (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My father never tired of glorifying this extraordinary element -- matter. "There is no dead matter," he taught us, "lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life. The range of these forms is infinite and their shades and nuances limitless. The Demiurge was in possession of important and interesting creative recipes. Thanks to them, he created a multiplicity of species which renew themselves by their own devices. No one knows whether these recipes will ever be reconstructed. But this is unnecessary, because even if the classical methods of creation should prove inaccessible for evermore, there still remain some illegal methods, an infinity of heretical and criminal methods.
    FROM: The Street of Crocodiles, (1992), Book, Poland
  • IN: The Messiah of Stockholm (1987) Biological Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My father never tired of glorifying this extraordinary element— matter. “There is no head matter,” he taught us. “Life-lessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life. The range of these forms is infinite and their shades and nuances limitless. The Demiurge was in possession of important and interesting creative recipes. Thank to them, he created a multiplicity of species which renew themselves by their own devices. No one knows whether these recipes will ever be reconstructed. But this is unnecessary, because even if the classical methods of creation should prove inaccessible for evermore, there still remain some illegal methods, an infinity of heretical and criminal methods.”
    FROM: The Street of Crocodiles, (1934), Book, Ukraine