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Benjamin, Lauren
MLN, 12/2019, Letnik: 134, Številka: 5Journal Article
This essay uses Martin Buber's articulation of the concept "ecstatic confession" to inform a reading of Polish-Jewish author Bruno Schulz's tales of "Księga" (The Book). I argue that Schulz's narrator, Józef, is a visionary seeker, much like medieval visionaries of Buber's collection Ekstatische Konfessionen (Ecstatic Confessions). Revealing the distinctly Christian influence of Schulz's modernism, I show that for Schulz and the medieval writers in Buber's collection, language remains the common link between spiritual insight and sensory experience: in attempting to describe the ineffable, it becomes possible for ecstatic writers to gesture towards a sacred, communal, and primordial word.
