The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories Paperback - 2008
by Bruno Schulz; Foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer; Introduction by David Goldfarb
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.
Summary
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.
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- Title The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
- Author Bruno Schulz; Foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer; Introduction by David Goldfarb
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 10th
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2008-01-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143105145 / 0143105140
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.12 x 0.66 in (19.56 x 13.00 x 1.68 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Poland
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
-David Grossman, The New Yorker
"A masterpiece of comic writing; grave yet dignified, domestically plain yet poetic, exultant and forgiving, marvelously inventive, shy, and never raw."
-The New York Review of Books
"Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers, one of the great transmogrifiers of the world into words. . . . [His] verbal art strikes us-stuns us, even-with its overload of beauty."
-John Updike
"One of the most original imaginations in modern Europe."
-Cynthia Ozick
"Schulz cannot be easily classified. He can be called a surrealist, a symbolist, an expressionist, a modernist. . . . He wrote sometimes like Kafka, sometimes like Proust, and at times succeeded in reaching depths that neither of them reached. . . . If Schulz had been allowed to live out his life, he might have given us untold treasures, but what he did in his short life was enough to make him one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Rich in fantasy, sensuous in their apprehension of the living world, elegant in style, witty, underpinned by a mystical but coherent idealistic aesthetic, The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass were unique and startling productions, seeming to come out of nowhere. . . . Schulz was incomparably gifted as an explorer of his own inner life, which is at the same time the recollected inner life of his childhood and his own creative workings. From the first comes the charm and freshness of his stories, from the second their intellectual power."
-J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books
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