"Schulz wrote sometimes like Kafka, sometimes like Proust, and at times succeeded in reaching depths that neither of them reached." βIsaac Bashevis Singer
"one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe." βCynthia Ozick
Cover design by Steven Cooley
Cover Illustration by Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz (1892-1842) was an art teacher who wrote in his leisure time. He has achieved world renown through his only two books, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass and The Street of Crocodiles.
This is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis during World War II. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "What he did in his short life was enough to make him one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived." Weaving myth, fantasy, and reality, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass , is, to quote Schulz, "an attempt at eliciting the history of a certain family . . . by a search for the mythical sense, the essential core of that history."
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Polish
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.