The Story
A novel that blends the real and the fantastic, from one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe (Cynthia Ozick)The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulzs uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant familys life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable and most chilling is the portrait of the authors 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.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Englishspeaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as uptodate translations by awardwinning translators.
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A novel that blends the real and the fantastic, from one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe (Cynthia Ozick)The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulzs uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant familys life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable and most chilling is the portrait of the authors 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.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Englishspeaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as uptodate translations by awardwinning translators.
