A stunning new collection featuring fresh translations of Bruno
Schulz's 15 most captivating short stories, in a beautiful Pushkin
Collection edition
Includes a new translation of a recently discovered story, believed to
be the first-ever published work by this legendary cult writer
The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with
mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange
figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the
sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards.
Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms,
through strange shops and endless storms.
Crowded with moments of stunning beauty, the 15 stories in his
collection showcases Schulz's darkly modern sensibility, and his
essential status as one of the great transformers of the ordinary into
the fantastical:
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August, A Visitation, Birds, Pan, Cinnamon Shops, The Street of
Crocodiles, Cockroaches, The Gale, The Night of the Great Season
(from Cinnamon Shops)
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The Book, The Age of Genius, A July Night, My Father Joins the
Firefighters, Father's Final Escape (from Sanatorium under the Sign
of the Hourglass)
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Undula--a new translation of Schulz's recently discovered first
published story