LEADER 04002cam a2200445 i 4500001 290416 005 20230808113846.0 008 230614s2023 nyuacf b 001 0beng d 035 (OCoLC)on1374120082 040 NjBwBT |beng |erda |cJBL |dJBL |dYDX |dBDX |dJVK |dQX7 |dOCLCQ |dOCLCF |dVP@ |dERASA |dMNN |dZLM |dLHM 020 9780393866575 |q(hardcover) 020 0393866572 |q(hardcover) 043 e-pl---e-un--- 050 14 PG7158.S2942 |bB35 2023 049 LHMA 100 1 Balint, Benjamin, |d1976- |eauthor. 245 10 Bruno Schulz : |ban artist, a murder, and the hijacking of history / |cBenjamin Balint. 246 30 Artist, a murder, and the hijacking of history 250 First edition. 264 1 New York, N.Y. : |bW.W. Norton & Company, |c[2023] 300 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations (some color), portraits ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 A biography of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist includes an account of the discovery of his last artworks--murals painted on the walls of a villa occupied by a Nazi officer--sixty years after his death and the complicated political dispute over the ownership of the murals. 520 "A fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret operation to rescue his last artworks. The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him "one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived." Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life. Drawing on extensive new reporting and archival research, Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa--the last traces of his vanished world--into multiple dimensions of the artist's life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities." -- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index. 505 0 Muromancy -- The republic of dreams -- The sensuous saint -- The writer discovered -- The artist enslaved -- Amnesia in the aftermath -- Afterimages. 600 10 Schulz, Bruno, |d1892-1942. 650 0 Authors, Polish |y20th century |vBiography. 650 0 Artists |zGalicia (Poland and Ukraine) |vBiography. 600 17 Schulz, Bruno, |d1892-1942. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00038611 650 7 Artists. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00817559 650 7 Authors, Polish. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00822267 651 7 Europe |zGalicia. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01310066 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 Biographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 852 0 |bscstacks |hPG7158.S2942 |iB35 2023