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The Street of Crocodiles
Literature · 1934
Bruno Schulz
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Literature 1934

The Street of Crocodiles

Drohobycz dream-shopPolish-Jewish mythfather as bird
Author
Bruno Schulz
Year
1934
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This a magical book of short stories set in a small town in Poland during the period between the two World Wars. The writer, Bruno Schulz, wrote only two books in his lifetime but the two are so rich in vision that they contain a whole world. There are wonderful stories of childhood and how a child's imagination tra...

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Drohobycz dream-shop Drohobycz dream-shopPolish-Jewish myth
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Bruno Schulz, 1934 — The Street of Crocodiles

This a magical book of short stories set in a small town in Poland during the period between the two World Wars. The writer, Bruno Schulz, wrote only two books in his lifetime but the two are so rich in vision that they contain a whole world. There are wonderful stories of childhood and how a child's imagination tra...

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Restates memory in a sharper literature register.
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This a magical book of short stories set in a small town in Poland during the period between the two World Wars. The writer, Bruno Schulz, wrote only two books in his lifetime but the two are so rich in vision that they contain a whole world. There are wonderful stories of childhood and how a child's imagination tra...
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