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The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories

The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories

The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories

By Bruno Schulz
Translated by Celina Wieniewska
Foreward by Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“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

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.

Paperback
335 pages
Penguin Classics, 2008
The Street of Crocodiles was originally published in 1934
5.1 x 0.4 x 7.7 Inches
ISBN 9780143105145
Short Stories, Fiction

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