Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz
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 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.
Levine has taken on the monumentally difficult task of retranslating Bruno Schulz's stories, and her work is both courageous and impressiveHer fidelity to the original text ensures that her translation will make a significant contribution to the reception of Bruno Schulz in English."" - Stanley Bill, Lecturer in Polish Studies at the University of Cambridge
Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) was a Polish Jew born in Drohobycz, at the time a city in Austrian Galicia. He published two volumes of short fiction during his life. Killed by a Nazi officer in German-occupied Drohobycz, Schulz achieved posthumous fame as one of the most influential European fiction writers of the twentieth century.
Madeline G. Levine is Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her translations from the Polish include The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories by Hanna Krall, Bread for the Departed by Bogdan Wojdowski, and four volumes of prose by Czeslaw Milosz, including Beginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections and Milosz’s ABC’s.
Madeline G. Levine is Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her translations from the Polish include The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories by Hanna Krall, Bread for the Departed by Bogdan Wojdowski, and four volumes of prose by Czeslaw Milosz, including Beginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections and Milosz’s ABC’s.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780810136601 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810136600 |
| Title | Collected Stories |
| Author | Bruno Schulz |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Year published | 2018-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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