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>International Conference "The World of Bruno Schulz / Bruno Schulz 
>and the World: Influences, Similarities, Reception" (Leuven, May 
>25-26, 2007)
>
>
>The Research Unit of Slavonic and East European Studies at the 
>Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), the Department of Slavonic 
>and East European Studies at the Universiteit Gent (Belgium) and the 
>Section of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Université Libre 
>de Bruxelles (Belgium) are pleased to announce the International 
>Conference "The World of Bruno Schulz/Bruno Schulz and the World: 
>Influences, Similarities, Reception". The Conference will take place 
>on the Faculty of Arts campus in Leuven, Belgium, May 25-26, 2007.
>
>As Stanislaw Eile (1996) has argued, the difficulty with Bruno 
>Schulz's prose is that "the extensive use of figurative language 
>renders the message rather confusing and consequently open to a 
>variety of esoteric readings, which often demonstrate the 
>inventiveness of critics rather than representing a convincing 
>explication of the text". According to Krzysztof Stala (1993), too 
>many critics limit themselves to "some fragmentary, marginal 
>reading, being rather aware of the inexhaustibleness of Schulz's 
>prose than trying to define this inexhaustibleness, domesticate it 
>with some proposal richer than 'expression of the inexpressible'". 
>Because of the difficulty to find a stable interpretative horizon in 
>Schulz's texts themselves, it has been a popular critical strategy 
>to compare his confusing literary output to an ever increasing 
>number of well- and less-known writers and literary trends. It 
>remains unclear, however, to which extent this profusion of 
>comparisons has lead to a better understanding of Schulz's literary 
>world. If Schulz is comparable to almost any modern writer, what is 
>then still so special about his writings?
>
>The aim of the conference is to explore the limits of the 
>comparability of Schulz's literary and graphic works. Participants 
>will link Schulz with such writers, artists, trends and traditions 
>as Djuna Barnes, Miron Bialoszewski, Martin Buber, Sigmund Freud, 
>Hasidism/Judaism, Tadeusz Kantor, Danilo Kis, Boleslaw Lesmian, 
>Magical Realism, Thomas Mann, Gabriel García Márquez, Masochism, 
>Modernism/Avant-Garde, Friedrich Nietzsche, Quay Brothers, Rainer 
>Maria Rilke, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Arthur Schopenhauer, 
>Skamander, Piotr Szewc, Magdalena Tulli, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and 
>Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta.
>
>For details or questions, please contact the members of the 
>Organizing Committee: Kris Van Heuckelom 
>(kris.vanheuckelom@arts.kuleuven.be) or Dieter De Bruyn 
>(dieter.debruyn@ugent.be). For complete conference program, 
>registration and all practical information, please check the 
>conference pages at http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/slavic/schulz/.
>
>The conference is sponsored by The Research Foundation - Flanders 
>(FWO), The Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (UGent), The Faculty of 
>Arts (K.U.Leuven) and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in 
>Brussels.