{"product_id":"bruno-schulz-an-artist-a-murder-and-the-hijacking-of-history-hardcover","title":"Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Balint\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy re-creating the artist's milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex, and violence, \u003cem\u003eBruno Schulz\u003c\/em\u003e itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eKafka's Last Trial\u003c\/em\u003e by Benjamin Balint\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Dramatic and illuminating.... [R]aises momentous questions about nationality, religion, literature, and even the Holocaust.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Adam Kirsch, \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Fascinating and forensically scrupulous.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--John Banville, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Thoughtful and provocative.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Ruth Franklin, \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Balint is] a gifted cultural historian with a scholarly sensibility.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Lev Mendes, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Absorbing.... Balint's scrupulous and sardonic prose makes you love Kafka, and dread the law.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A tale pitting two Goliaths against one octogenarian David, untangled in exacting, riveting detail.... [A] must-read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Rebecca Schuman, \u003cem\u003eSlate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.09 x 9.27 x 6.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151254098055,"sku":"9780393866575","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/98d92896e15875bcb9e3adc40cc8af4a.webp?v=1733205736","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/bruno-schulz-an-artist-a-murder-and-the-hijacking-of-history-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}