![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() verbal art strikes us-stuns us, even-with its overload of beauty.”-John Updike “Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers, one of the great transmogrifiers of the world into words. “A masterpiece of comic writing grave yet dignified, domestically plain yet poetic, exultant and forgiving, marvelously inventive, shy, and never raw.”- The New York Review of Books From the first comes the charm and freshness of his stories, from the second their intellectual power.”-J. Schulz was incomparably gifted as an explorer of his own inner life, which is at the same time the recollected inner life of his childhood and his own creative workings. “Rich in fantasy, sensuous in their apprehension of the living world, elegant in style, witty, underpinned by a mystical but coherent idealistic aesthetic, The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass were unique and startling productions, seeming to come out of nowhere. ![]()
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