Research Catalog

Title

The street of crocodiles and other stories / Bruno Schulz ; translated by Celina Wieniewska ; foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer ; introduction by David A. Goldfarb.

Author

Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942

Publication

New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wieniewska, Celina
• Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
• Goldfarb, David A.

Description

xxix, 335 pages : black and white illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

"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' ; 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"--

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

• Short stories. English
• Penguin classics.

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Poland > Fiction
• Families > Poland > Fiction
• Merchants > Poland > Fiction
• Fathers > Poland > Fiction
• Death > Fiction

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Magic realist fiction
• Short stories
• Fiction
• Nouvelles.

Note

• 'The Street of Crocodiles' first published in the United States of America by Walker and Company, 1963 and originally published in Polish as 'Sklepy cynamonowe' ('Cinnamon Shops'), 1934 ; 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' first published in the United States of America by Walker and Company, 1978 and first published in Polish as 'Sanatorium pod klepsydra', 1937.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxix).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by Jonathan Safran Foer -- Introduction / by David A. Goldfarb -- The Street of Crocodiles. August ; Visitation ; Birds ; Tailor's dummies. Treatise on Tailors' dummies or The Second Book of Genesis ; Treatise on Tailors' dummies, Continuation ; Treatise on Tailor's dummies, Conclusion -- Nimrod ; Pan ; Mr. Charles ; Cinnamon shops ; The Street of Crocodiles ; Cockroaches ; The gale ; The night of the Great Season ; The comet -- Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. The Book ; The age of genius ; Spring ; A night in July ; My father joins the fire brigade ; A second autumn ; Dead season ; Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass ; Dodo ; Eddie ; The old-age pensioner ; Loneliness ; Father's last escape -- The republic of dreams -- Autumn -- Fatherland.

ISBN

• 9780143105145
• 0143105140

LCCN

2008276082

OCLC

• 166382387
• SCSB-12774336

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library