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Abstrakt

The essay focuses on the connections of Bruno Schulz’s stories with weird fiction. The author attempts to determine which features of Schulz’s fiction have made some critics to associate his name with that genre. Referring to the highly criticized essays by Kazimierz Wyka and Stefan Napierski, he wonders if applying to Schulz’s work a term rooted in romanticism, particularly in its „dark” variety, is well-founded. Ultimately, he concludes that Schulz’s fiction can be legitimately assigned to a literary tradition represented by Edgar Allan Poe. By the same token, weird fiction has been included in the frame of reference of Schulz studies, offering an opportunity for a comparative analysis of Schulz and Poe.