The street of crocodiles
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140186255
ISBN 13
9780140186253
Category
Literature & Poetry
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Publication Year
1977
Publisher
Pages
160
Description
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a statling blend of the real and fantastic. Most memorable and most chilling is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Shultz, a Polish Jew killed by Nazis in 1942 is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
