The Age of Genius and Architecture

Bruno Schulz self portrait, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

“Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread,” writes Bruno Schulz in his short story The Age of Genius. “There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.”

I learned of Schultz’s booksSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hou...