The complete fiction of Bruno Schulz / with an afterword by Jerzy Ficowski ; translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska.

Author
Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Walker and Co., 1989.
Description
xiv, 324 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    • The street of crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jew killed by the Nazis in 1942, is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars.
    • Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass: The novel takes the form of a collection of dreamlike, poetic short stories that reflect on the death of the narrator's father, as well as life in the modest Jewish quarter of Drohobycz, the provincial town in the Austro-Hungarian Empire where Schulz was born. The hourglass of the title refers to the use of this object as a symbol in obituaries and death notices among the Poles.
    Contents
    • The street of crocodiles
    • Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass.
    ISBN
    • 0802710913
    • 9780802710918
    LCCN
    89016490
    OCLC
    20012725
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