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Title: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Writers from the Other Europe) by Bruno Schulz ISBN: 0-14-005272-0 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful prose
Comment: Schulz has an ability to make even the most ordinary event revolutionary and poetic. A book transforms into a magical, almost living entity in the young narrator's mind. A look into a friend's stamp collection draws allusions to Alexander the Great's quest for world domination. His descriptions bring life to every minute detail. I only wish I knew Polish to read the original words.
Rating: 5
Summary: Impt.: Hourglass alludes to Obitutuary in Polish.
Comment: This fiction is like looking out a window at a Las Vegas water show under colored lights: riotious, gorgeous and original. Everything by this Galician Polish Jewish writer/artist is genius.
The title story "The Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass" deals with Schulz's fantastic visit to his deceased father in the afterworld.
In Polish the title literally reads "the Sanitorium beneath the hourglass." However, the term Hourglass (klepsydra) is also used for death notices that are posted on bulletin-boards in public squares. Hence the allusion to a death notice in the title.
Rating: 5
Summary: When They Died
Comment: A collection of short stories by the acclaimed Polish author killed by the Nazis during World War II. Unrecognized still even after the war, Schulz is in some circles now considered the finest modern Polish-language prose stylist. His stories are dreamlike reflections on life in the modest Jewish quarter of Drohobycz, the town of his birth. Both his fiction and drawings are notable for their erotic tenor and their acute anticipation of the emptiness produced by modern civilization.
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Title: The Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Bruno Schulz ISBN: 0140186255 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, a Biographical Portrait by Jerzy Ficowski, Theodosia S. Robertson, Theodosia Robertson ISBN: 0393051471 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 11 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz: With Selected Prose by Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski ISBN: 0060158964 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Drawings of Bruno Schulz by Bruno Schulz ISBN: 0810109654 Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt ISBN: 0300082401 Publisher: Yale Nota Bene Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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