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Bruno Schulz has foreseen catastrophe and is almost paralysed by fear. His last chance of survival is to leave the home town to which, despite being in his late forties, he clings as if to a comforting blanket. So he retreats into his cellar (and sometimes hides under his desk) to write a letter to Thomas Mann: appealing to the literary giant to help him find a foreign publisher, in order that the reasons to leave Drohobych will finally outweigh the reasons to stay. Evoking Bulgakov and Singer, Biller takes us on an astounding, burlesque journey into Schulz's world, which vacillates between shining dreams and unbearable nightmares - a world which, like Schulz's own stories, prophesies the apocalyptic events to come.
Includes two stories by Bruno Schulz: 'Birds' and 'The Cinnamon Shops', from The Street of Crocodiles.
Bruno Schulz has foreseen catastrophe and is almost paralysed by fear. His last chance of survival is to leave the home town to which, despite being in his late forties, he clings as if to a...
Bruno Schulz has foreseen catastrophe and is almost paralysed by fear. His last chance of survival is to leave the home town to which, despite being in his late forties, he clings as if to a comforting blanket. So he retreats into his cellar (and sometimes hides under his desk) to write a letter to Thomas Mann: appealing to the literary giant to help him find a foreign publisher, in order that the reasons to leave Drohobych will finally outweigh the reasons to stay. Evoking Bulgakov and Singer, Biller takes us on an astounding, burlesque journey into Schulz's world, which vacillates between shining dreams and unbearable nightmares - a world which, like Schulz's own stories, prophesies the apocalyptic events to come.
Includes two stories by Bruno Schulz: 'Birds' and 'The Cinnamon Shops', from The Street of Crocodiles.
Advance Praise
Praise forBruno Schulz:
"One of the most remarkable writers who ever lived" - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"I read Schulz's stories and felt the gush of life." - David Grossman
"One of the most original imaginations in Europe" - Cynthia Ozick
Praise for The Street of Crocodiles:
"A book I've always loved... a masterpiece" - Jonathan Safran Foer
"A rich stew of metaphysical mischief and meditations" - Michel Faber
"Rich in fantasy, sensuous in their apprehension of the living world, elegant in style, witty, underpinned by a mystical but coherent idealistic aesthetic... unique and startling" - J. M Coetzee
'Cold, dark, magnificent' Welt am Sonntag
'Airy, bold, Mozart-like... a brilliant novella' Süddeutsche Zeitung
'The perfect invitation to read Schulz... Biller's small novella is a great Kaddish' Die Zeit
'Biller writes with a matter-of-fact, unobtrusive elegance which is unmatched by any other German writer of his generation. His novella has attained the level of world literature' Spiegel Online
'A linguistic work of art, which shows the stylist Maxim Biller at his creative height' Hamburger Abendblatt
Praise forBruno Schulz:
"One of the most remarkable writers who ever lived" - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"I read Schulz's stories and felt the gush of life." - David Grossman
"One of the most remarkable writers who ever lived" - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"I read Schulz's stories and felt the gush of life." - David Grossman
"One of the most original imaginations in Europe" - Cynthia Ozick
Praise for The Street of Crocodiles:
"A book I've always loved... a masterpiece" - Jonathan Safran Foer
"A rich stew of metaphysical mischief and meditations" - Michel Faber
"Rich in fantasy, sensuous in their apprehension of the living world, elegant in style, witty, underpinned by a mystical but coherent idealistic aesthetic... unique and startling" - J. M Coetzee
'Cold, dark, magnificent' Welt am Sonntag
'Airy, bold, Mozart-like... a brilliant novella' Süddeutsche Zeitung
'The perfect invitation to read Schulz... Biller's small novella is a great Kaddish' Die Zeit
'Biller writes with a matter-of-fact, unobtrusive elegance which is unmatched by any other German writer of his generation. His novella has attained the level of world literature' Spiegel Online
'A linguistic work of art, which shows the stylist Maxim Biller at his creative height' Hamburger Abendblatt
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