Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
The Street of Crocodiles is a 1934 collection of short stories written by Bruno Schulz. The collection tells the story of a merchant family from a small Galician town which resembles the writer's home town. The story abounds in mythical elements, introduced by means of the visionary and dreamlike literary depiction, characteristic of the writer. It is thus mythologized reality, processed by the imagination, artistically distorted and enriched by all possible references and allusions to other literary works, to great myths, to other, more exotic domains of reality.
BRUNO SCHULZ (1892-1942) was a Polish Jew born in Drohobych, at the time a city in Austrian Galicia. He published two volumes of short fiction during his life. Shot in the street by a Nazi officer in German-occupied Drohobych, 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. RIVKA GALCHEN is the author of three books, including the novel Atmospheric Disturbances. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times, she has been awarded numerous prizes and fellowships and was included on the New Yorker's 20 under 40 list of fiction writers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140186253 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140186255 |
| Title | Street of Crocodiles |
| Author | Bruno Schulz |
| Series | Penguin 20th Century Classic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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