Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass / by Bruno Schulz ; translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska ; with 30 illustrations by the author ; introduction by John Updike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942.

Contributor:

Wieniewska, Celina.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Writers from the other Europe

Standardized Title:

Sanatorium pod klepsydrą. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Poland--Fiction.

Poland.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 178 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Englad ;] [New York] : Penguin Books, [1979]

Contents:

The book

The age of genius

Spring

A night in July

My father joins the fire brigade

A second fall

Dead season

Sanatorium undr the sign of the hourglass

Dodo

Eddie

The old age pensioner

Loneliness

Father's last escape.

Notes:

"Published in Penguin Books 1979."

First published in Poland under title:Sanatorium pod klepsydrą 1937.

"Set in Times Roman."

Publisher's advertisements: [8] pages at end.

"'Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass' is the second collection of prose fiction by Bruno Schulz. Published in Warsaw in 1937, if followed three years after 'Cinamon Shops,' his very successful literary debut which is known in the United Sttes as 'The Street of Crocodiles."".-- Page ix.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

ISBN:

0140052720

9780140052725

OCLC:

5170348