Street Of Crocodiles And Other Stories Bruno Schulz by Bruno Schulz
A collection of linked, dreamlike vignettes that turns a small Eastern European town into a mythic, decaying landscape where childhood memory, family life, and the routines of shopkeeping mingle with uncanny, often erotic imagery. The narrator evokes his anxious, enigmatic father, eccentric townspeople, and the slow disintegration of bourgeois order through lush, tactile prose that animates ordinary objects into living, menacing presences. The result is a melancholy, hallucinatory meditation on art, memory, and the porous boundary between reality and imagination.
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- Published
- 1934
- Nationality
- Polish
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 120-160 pages
- Original Language
- Polish
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- Alternate Titles
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- Sklepy cynamonowe
- The Cinnamon Shops
- The Street of Crocodiles
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