By Rolando Pérez

The Divine Duty of Servants is for lack of a better word based on drawings by Bruno Schulz. For it would be wrong to conceive of the prose either as secondary or supplementary. If anything, the prose, original in its own right aesthetically as well thematically, represents another layer in the intertextuality of painterly and writerly narrative.THE ARTWORK The Divine Duty of Servants introduces the work of outsider artist Malcolm McKesson a writer and an artist who like Bruno Schulz, dealt with such topics as foot fetishism, cross-dressing, and erotic scenes of bondage and submission. Mr. Perez s photographic series on the same theme provide a visual response to Bruno Schulz s artwork. Left flap: The Author Cuban born, Rolando Perez, is the author of numerous books on a variety of subjects ranging from philosophy and literary criticism to poetry and drama. Some of his published titles include OnAn(Archy)andSchizoanalysis, Severo Sarduy and the Religion of the Text, and The Lining of Our Souls (based on selected paintings of Edward Hopper.) He has also written over 15 plays that have received production in NYC. Mr. Perez has a B.A. in philosophy from Trenton State College, an M.A. in philosophy, an M.A. in Spanish (both from Stony Brook), and a Masters in Library Science from Rutgers University. He is a librarian and the Spanish/French bibliographer at Hunter College.