The Street of Crocodiles

The Street of Crocodiles

Author: Bruno Schulz

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780140186253

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The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's 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.


Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz

Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz

Author: Bruno Schulz

Publisher: Froom International Pub

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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This dazzling collection of letters, essays, and narratives makes clear why Cynthia Ozick has called Schulz one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe. He was one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.--Isaac Bashevis Singer.


Regions of the Great Heresy

Regions of the Great Heresy

Author: Jerzy Ficowski

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780393325478

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"A prolonged labor of love [and] a model of a kind of penetrating adoration."--Richard Bernstein, New York Times


Ambient Literature

Ambient Literature

Author: Tom Abba

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 3030414566

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This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences. Building on the work done in the Ambient Literature Project (2016–2018), this books argues that these encounters constitute new literary forms, in which the authored text lies at the heart of an embodied and mediated experience. The visual, sonic, social and historic resources of place become the elements of a live and emergent mise-en-scène. Specific techniques of narration, including hallucination, memory, history, place based writing, and drama, as well as reworking of traditional storytelling forms combine with the work of app and user experience design, interaction, software authoring, and GIS (geographical information systems) to produce ambient experiences where the user reads a textual and sonic literary space. These experiences are temporary, ambiguous, and unpredictable in their meaning but unlike the theatre, the gallery, or the cinema they take place in the everyday shared world. The book explores the potentiality of a new literary form produced by the exchange between location-aware cultural objects, writers and readers. This book, and the work it explores, lays the ground for a new poetics of situated writing and reading practices.


Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

Author: Karen Underhill

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2024-06-25

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0253057299

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In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like many of his Galician Jewish colleagues who would choose to write in Yiddish, Schulz used the Polish language to explore his own and his generation's relationship to East European Jewish exegetical tradition, and to deepen his reflection on golus or exile as a condition not only of the individual and of the Jewish community, but of language itself, and of matter. Drawing on new archival discoveries, this study explores Schulz's diasporic Jewish modernism as an example of the creative and also transient poetic forms that emerged on formerly Habsburg territory, at the historical juncture between empire and nation-state.


The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories

The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories

Author: Bruno Schulz

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-01-17

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781517543655

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In The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories, Bruno Schulz describes in fantastical, mythologised terms the cloth merchant's shop where he grew up and the bizarre antics of his father, such as turning the attic into an aviary and expounding strange theories on mannequins. Two sides of the Galician town of Drohobycz are seen: the old town full of ancient mystery is contrasted with newer districts that have sprung up in response to oil mining in the area. The language is poetic, heady and oneiric, employing a rich system of imagery incorporating books and labyrinths.


Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Author: Bruno Schulz

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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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."


The Secret Life of Puppets

The Secret Life of Puppets

Author: Victoria Nelson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2003-11-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0674041410

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In one of those rare books that allows us to see the world not as we've never seen it before, but as we see it daily without knowing, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the supernatural still holds for a secular mainstream culture that forced the transcendental underground and firmly displaced wonder and awe with the forces of reason, materialism, and science. In a backward look at an era now drawing to a close, The Secret Life of Puppets describes a curious reversal in the roles of art and religion: where art and literature once took their content from religion, we came increasingly to seek religion, covertly, through art and entertainment. In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the spiritual resurfaced in high art but also, strikingly, in the mass culture of puppets, horror-fantasy literature, and cyborgs: from the works of Kleist, Poe, Musil, and Lovecraft to Philip K. Dick and virtual reality simulations. At the end of the millennium, discarding a convention of the demonized grotesque that endured three hundred years, a Demiurgic consciousness shaped in Late Antiquity is emerging anew to re-divinize the human as artists like Lars von Trier and Will Self reinvent Expressionism in forms familiar to our pre-Reformation ancestors. Here as never before, we see how pervasively but unwittingly, consuming art forms of the fantastic, we allow ourselves to believe.


The Drawings of Bruno Schulz

The Drawings of Bruno Schulz

Author: Bruno Schulz

Publisher: First Glance Books

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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The first complete collection of the known artwork of Polish writer and artist Schulz (1892-1941). Drawing from the Viennese Expressionists and the Old Masters, Schultz portrays his sense of personal and cultural degradation through scenes of grotesque eroticism and masochism. About 200 bandw drawings and sketches are reproduced. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR