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The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in
modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick)
Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one
of the great losses to modern literature. During his lifetime, his
work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable
talents gradually won him an international readership. This volume
brings together his complete fiction, including three short stories
and his final surviving work, "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the
Hourglass." Illustrated with Schulz's original drawings, this
edition beautifully showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of
one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers.
The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with
mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange
figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring
the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across
floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly
lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms.
Crowded with moments of stunning beauty, the stories in this
collection showcase Schulz's darkly modern sensibility, and his
status as one of the great transformers of the ordinary into the
fantastical.
Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) was a Polish Jewish author, graphic
designer and draftsman from Galicia. During the Soviet occupation
(1939-41) and the Nazi occupation that followed, he created most of
his graphic works, in part under orders from the occupying powers
that controlled Poland. But in secret he portrayed his people and
their suffering, especially that of the Jews in the ghetto during
the two occupations. This book concentrates on the private drawings
he made during his last years.
Wunderbar bebilderter Band uber die Kusten und Inseln der deutschen
Nordsee. Mit Kapiteln zu Bau und Entstehung des Landes, der
Beschaffenheit des Meeres und dem Klima sowie den historischen und
geografischen Besonderheiten einzelner Kustenabschnitte.Nachdruck
der Originalausgabe von 1928.
Collected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the
complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers
as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer,
Philip Roth, Danilo Kis, and Roberto Bolano. Schulz's prose is
renowned for its originality. Set largely in a fictional
counterpart of his hometown of Drohobycz, his stories merge the
real and the surreal. The most ordinary objects-the wind, an
article of clothing, a plate of fish-can suddenly appear
unfathomably mysterious and capable of illuminating profound
truths. As "Father," one of his most intriguing characters,
declaims: "Matter has been granted infinite fecundity, an
inexhaustible vital force, and at the same time, a seductive power
of temptation that entices us to create forms." This comprehensive
volume includes all of The Cinnamon Shops, restoring the original
Polish title to Schulz's most famous collection (sometimes titled
The Street of Crocodiles in English), and Sanatorium under the
Hourglass. Also included are four previously uncollected short
stories that pay tribute to Schulz's enduring genius. Madeline G.
Levine's masterful new translation shows contemporary readers how
Schulz, often compared to Proust and Kafka, reveals the workings of
memory and consciousness.
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