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The Street of Crocodiles

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Surreal journey through a Polish boyhood dreamscape.

If you're someone who appreciates the kind of literature that dances on the edges of reality, shapes it, and often blurs it into something rich, almost hallucinatory, then The Street of Crocodiles stands out as a masterpiece you shouldn't miss. Schulz's prose is more than just storytelling; it becomes an art form that paints the peculiar and profound experiences of boyhood and family life with a brush dipped in the fantastical. This book could transport you to a world where the line between the animate and inanimate is whisper-thin, and every page promises to leave an indelible imprint on your imagination.

  • Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1974)
  • Tähtifantasia Award (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Street of Crocodiles

Regular price ₱589.05
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ISBN: 9780140186253
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date of Publication: 1992-03-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism
Goodreads rating: 4.02
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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 startling blend of the real and the 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 Schulz, a Polish Jew killed by the Nazis in 1942, is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars. 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 showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers.
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Surreal journey through a Polish boyhood dreamscape.

If you're someone who appreciates the kind of literature that dances on the edges of reality, shapes it, and often blurs it into something rich, almost hallucinatory, then The Street of Crocodiles stands out as a masterpiece you shouldn't miss. Schulz's prose is more than just storytelling; it becomes an art form that paints the peculiar and profound experiences of boyhood and family life with a brush dipped in the fantastical. This book could transport you to a world where the line between the animate and inanimate is whisper-thin, and every page promises to leave an indelible imprint on your imagination.

  • Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1974)
  • Tähtifantasia Award (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.