UKRAINIAN COMPONENT ON THE ARTISTIC AND NATIONAL VISITING CARD OF BRUNO SCHULZ

Abstract

Modern prosobiography of Schulz does not still have a single solution to many debatable issues, ranging from determining the artistic, national, or professional affiliation of Bruno Schulz, his participation in the heterogeneous society of Drohobych, (not) going beyond the artist’s family religiosity to (not) influences, etc. the so-called geographically cultural (and not only) borderlands. The issue of Bruno Schulz’s Ukrainianness also remains problematic. The article presents a reasoned narrative about the (non-) Ukrainianness of Bruno Schulz: a list of criteria for determining in a certain way the Ukrainianness / non-Ukrainianness of the artist is concluded; the facts from the biography are organized to confirm the Ukrainianness of Bruno Schulz; his presence in the modern Ukrainian space of time is characterized; the author’s position on the relationship between members of the binary opposition Bruno Schulz ↔ Ukrainianness has been made public. The author is confident that each specific case should be resolved through an individual and differential approach, especially in a multilingual and culturally diverse Ukrainian society, in particular in the Galician territories, whose representative is the world-class Polish artist of Jewish origin from the Ukrainian town of Drohobych Bruno Schulz. The relevance of the study lies primarily in the formation of the Ukrainian reception of Bruno Schulz’s creative work in a certain way and in further promoting the revival of interest in the artist’s verbal creativity in Ukraine and by Ukrainians. By no means denying the Polish, Jewish, German, etc. “presence”, the author is also sure of the presence of a Ukrainian component, that is, Shultz’s Ukrainianness. So, the creative work of Bruno Schultz is known in Ukraine, it lives and is actively spreading on the Ukrainian territory. The author is sure that both the proposed scientific investigation and the continuation of research in the outlined direction will contribute to a positive answer to the voiced issue.