The street of crocodiles
著者
書誌事項
The street of crocodiles
（Penguin twentieth-century classics）
Penguin Books, 1977
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Sklepy cynamonowe
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注記
"Originally published in Poland with the title "Cinnamon Shops" 1934"--T.p. verso
"English translation first published in the United States of America by Walker and Company 1963"--T.p. verso
"Published in Penguin Books 1977"--T.p. verso
"Originally published in Penguin Books as part of the "Writers from the other Europe" series (general editor: Philip Roth)"--T.p. verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 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.
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