Metaforyczne obrazy ciemności i nocy w prozie Brunona Schulza

Abstrakt

The paper discusses some metaphors of night, evening, darkness, twilight and their related phenomena. They have all been selected from the short stories written by Bruno Schulz.

The analysis of the metaphors allows us to notice a certain character of Schulz's metaphorization, consisting in associating darkness with negative phenomena. Darkness and night are shown by Schulz in a metaphorical manner as personified elements capable of creating reality. That reality is not friendly to man, hostile, possessive, and has a destructive influence on man and his surrounding. An important role in the metaphorical presentation of night is played by metaphors in whose lexical composition there appear names bringing to mind semantic associations. These metaphors are usually valued as negative, both in emotional and aesthetic sense. Such names are, above all, names of diseases and their symptoms, names causing negative tactile sensations and stimulating imagination to create scenes with a negative influence on our psyche.