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Fiction Of Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz
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Description for Fiction Of Bruno Schulz
Paperback. In November 1942, Bruno Schulz, teacher of drawing and handicrafts at a boys' college in Drohobycz, was shot dead by a Gestapo officer as he brought home a loaf of bread. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
The stories in these pages comprise all the surviving fiction of a man described by John Updike in the introduction as 'one of the great transmogrifiers of the world into words'. They portray the doom-ridden yet comic world of a small Polish town in the years before the war, a world brought vividly to life in prose as memorable and as unique as are the brushstrokes of Marc Chagall.
The stories in these pages comprise all the surviving fiction of a man described by John Updike in the introduction as 'one of the great transmogrifiers of the world into words'. They portray the doom-ridden yet comic world of a small Polish town in the years before the war, a world brought vividly to life in prose as memorable and as unique as are the brushstrokes of Marc Chagall.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1900
Publisher
Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447219477
SKU
V9781447219477
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About Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz was born in 1892. He lived in Drohobycz, Galicia, where he taught art at a secondary school, and drew and wrote in his spare time. In 1934 he published a collection of stories, Cinnamon Shops, followed by another, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, three years later. During the Second World War, he was confined to the ... Read more
Reviews for Fiction Of Bruno Schulz
'Bruno Schulz was a writer of real, imaginative vision. Like Kafka. Like William Blake. Like all those dreams we have not yet dreamed, but will' Robert Nye 'Schulz's pages are crowded with verbal art which strikes the reader - stuns him, even - with its overload of beauty' Sunday Times