The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz

The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz

The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick)

The untimely death of Polish writer Bruno Schulz at the hands of a Gestapo officer stands as one of the great losses to modern literature, but since his death, word of his extraordinary literary voice has won him an international readership. This volume brings together Schulz's complete fiction, including The Street of Crocodiles, praised by The New York Review of Books as "a masterpiece . . . marvelously inventive"; his final surviving work, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass; and three short stories. Illustrated with Schulz's luminous original drawings, this edition beautifully showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers.

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Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) was born into a family of cloth merchants with a shop on Drohobycz's market square. Schulz rarely left town, despite the fact that it would pass through Austrian, Polish, Soviet, and Nazi control throughout his lifetime. Schulz returned to his previous school as an art teacher. Schulz was assassinated by a Nazi officer in the town where he was born, who allegedly told a colleague, You shot my Jew, so I shot yours.

His two collections of short stories, The Cinnamon Stores (1934) and The Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass (1937), have given him renown and a reputation as Poland's greatest modern prose stylist.

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ISBN 13	9780143105145
ISBN 10	0143105140
Title	The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
Author	Bruno Schulz
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia
Year published	2008-03-25
Number of pages	368
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