The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick)
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...

Eine der groen Kindheitsgeschichten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Zimtlden erzhlt von der versunkenen Welt des Schtetls in Galizien: der verschrobene Vater und seine bse Gegenspielerin Adela, verwunschene Grten und modrige Hauseingnge, berraschend entdeckte Zimmer hinter vernagelten Tren, wo die Tapeten zu leben anfangen, das flirrende Paradies des Sommers, ein Sturm, der das Germpel auf dem Speicher in Wallung bringt, Nchte, in denen Schneiderpuppen zum Leben erwachen. Doreen Daume hat eine neue Sprache gefunden fr das an Wortschpfungen und atmosphrischen Bildern reiche polnische Original; mit...

In The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories, Bruno Schulz describes in fantastical, mythologised terms the cloth merchant's shop where he grew up and the bizarre antics of his father, such as turning the attic into an aviary and expounding strange theories on mannequins. Two sides of the Galician town of Drohobycz are seen: the old town full of ancient mystery is contrasted with newer districts that have sprung up in response to oil mining in the area. The language is poetic, heady and oneiric, employing a rich system of imagery incorporating books and labyrinths.