Collected stories / Bruno Schulz ; translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine ; foreword by Rivka Galchen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942, author.

Contributor:

Levine, Madeline G., translator.

Galchen, Rivka, writer of foreword.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942--Translations into English.

Schulz, Bruno.

Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942.

Genre:

Short stories.

Translations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 269 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Collected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Philip Roth, Danilo Kiš, and Roberto Bolaño. Schulz's prose is renowned for its originality. Set largely in a fictional counterpart of his hometown of Drohobych, his stories merge the real and the surreal. The most ordinary objects-the wind, an article of clothing, a plate of fish-can suddenly appear unfathomably mysterious and capable of illuminating profound truths. As Father, one of his most intriguing characters, declaims: "Matter has been granted infinite fecundity, an inexhaustible vital force, and at the same time, a seductive power of temptation that entices us to create forms." This comprehensive volume brings together all of Schulz's published stories-Cinnamon Shops, his most famous collection (sometimes titled The Street of Crocodiles in English), The Sanatorium under the Hourglass, and an additional four stories that he did not include in either of his collections. Madeline G. Levine's masterful new translation shows contemporary readers how Schulz, often compared to Proust and Kafka, reveals the workings of memory and consciousness. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword by Rivka Galchen

Translator's note

Cinnamon shops. August ; A visitation ; Birds ; Mannequins ; "A treatise on mannequins; or, The second book of genesis" ; "A treatise on mannequins, continued" ; A treatise on mannequins, conclusion ; Nimrod ; Pan ; Uncle Karol ; Cinnamon shops ; The street of crocodiles ; Cockroaches ; The windstorm ; The night of the great season

The sanatorium under the hourglass. The book ; The age of genius ; Spring ; A July night ; My father joins the firefighters ; A second autumn ; The dead season ; The sanatorium under the hourglass ; Dodo ; Edzio ; The pensioner ; Loneliness ; Father's final escape

Other stories. Autumn ; The Republic of Dreams ; The comet ; Fatherland.

Notes:

"The source for this translation is the annotated Polish National Library edition of Bruno Schulz, Opowiadania. wybór esejów i listów [Stories: selection of essays and letters], editied by Jerzy Jarzębski and published in Poland in 1989 by Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page xiv).

Contains:

Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942. Sklepy cynamonowe. English

Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942. Sanatorium pod klepsydrą. English

ISBN:

9780810136601

0810136600

OCLC:

996417094