The Fictions of Bruno Schulz

By Bruno Schulz,

Book cover of The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass

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The stories in these pages comprise all the surviving fiction of a man described by John Updike in the introduction as 'one of the great transmogrifiers of the world into words'. They portray the doom-ridden yet comic world of a small Polish town in the years before the war, a…

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1 author picked The Fictions of Bruno Schulz as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Long ago, I watched a dream of a movie called Street of Crocodiles by the Quay Brothers. It was based on a story by someone called Bruno Schulz. I bought the book. Though there are only two Bruno Schulz books, it is as if there are a thousand Bruno Schulz books hidden between their words. His stories are often unable to contain themselves and his writing bursts out into reverie. Shot dead by a Nazi officer at the age of fifty, his writing displays a sensitivity that is the antithesis of something as brutal as firing a bullet into a…

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