Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Collected stories / Bruno Schulz ; translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine ; foreword by Rivka Galchen.

by Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942.

View full image

Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Poland -- Fiction.

9780810136601 (trade pbk)

Short stories. English.

xiv, 269 p. ; 23 cm.

Translated from the Polish.

Foreword by Rivka Galchen -- Translator's note -- Cinnamon shops -- August -- A visitation -- Birds -- Mannequins -- A treatise on mannequins; or, The second book of genesis -- A treatise on mannequins, continued -- A treatise on mannequins, conclusion -- Nimrod -- Pan -- Uncle Karol -- Cinnamon shops -- The street of crocodiles -- Cockroaches -- The windstorm -- The night of the great season -- The sanatorium under the hourglass -- The book -- The age of genius -- Spring -- A July night -- My father joins the firefighters -- A second autumn -- The dead season -- The sanatorium under the hourglass -- Dodo -- Edzio -- The pensioner -- Loneliness -- Father's final escape -- Uncollected stories -- Autumn -- The Republic of Dreams -- The comet -- Fatherland.

"Collected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Philip Roth, Danilo Kiš, and Roberto Bolaño. Schulz’s prose is renowned for its originality. Set largely in a fictional counterpart of his hometown of Drohobycz, his stories merge the real and the surreal. The most ordinary objects -- the wind, an article of clothing, a plate of fish -- can suddenly appear unfathomably mysterious and capable of illuminating profound truths. As “Father,” one of his most intriguing characters, declaims: “Matter has been granted infinite fecundity, an inexhaustible vital force, and at the same time, a seductive power of temptation that entices us to create forms.” This comprehensive volume includes all of The Cinnamon Shops, restoring the original Polish title to Schulz’s most famous collection (sometimes titled The Street of Crocodiles in English), and Sanatorium under the Hourglass. Also included are four previously uncollected short stories that pay tribute to Schulz’s enduring genius. Madeline G. Levine’s masterful new translation shows contemporary readers how Schulz, often compared to Proust and Kafka, reveals the workings of memory and consciousness."--Publisher.

Magic realism (Literature)

Literary fiction.

Polish fiction -- Translations into English.

Levine, Madeline G.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal