“The phrase "fantastic realism" has been suggested for Schulz's art. It is an imprecise description, although it possesses some validity in its vague suggestion of a symbiosis of phantom with realistic observation. Perhaps surrealism? But where surrealism seeks shocking juxtapositions and utilizes the alogicality of the dream vision, Schulz is a master of the visual world: he sees and observes accurately and precisely. These perceptions suggest connections and consequences to Schulz, and upon them he builds myth—distant from the ordinary vision of the world, not surrealistically alogical, but in some way obvious, and, to use a neologism, ruled by Schulzian mythologic.
This means that individual images in Schulz's writing, intensified by the mythicization of the object, are truer and more evocative than realistic description. The story of the puppy Nemrod uses neither naturalistic description nor the conventional device of anthropomorphism and yet is both accurate and convincing. The introverted Schulz, enmeshed in the depths of his own personality, was in fact an incomparable observer.” - Jerzy Ficowski, ‘Regions of the Great Heresy’ (1992) [p. 97]
