Sklepy cynamonowe (or The Street of Crocodiles and The Cinnamon Shops) is a collection of short stories written by Bruno Schulz. Released in 1934, the stories within serve as a recounting of Schulz's childhood.
Stories within[]
- August
- Visitation
- Birds
- Tailors' Dummies
- Treatise on Tailors' Dummies or the Second Book of Genesis
- Treatise on Tailors' Dummies: Continuation
- Treatise on Tailors' Dummies: Conclusion
- Nimrod
- Pan
- Mr. Charles
- Cinnamon Shops
- The Street of Crocodiles
- Cocroaches
- The Gale
- The Night of the Great Season
- The Comet
Publisher's summary[]
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jew killed by the Nazis in 1942, is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars.
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.
Sources[]
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads