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A review by acorn
The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
5.0
I just finished Tree of Codes, and whilst not as enamored with it as with Jonathan Safran Foer's other work, I was struck by the unusual turns of phrase. It seemed like a novel by deletion had worked for Foer, because he managed to place evocative but ultimately distant words next to each other, and the effect was beautiful.
Little did I know, they're all there in the original, only richer and more satisfying. If I had been carrying around post-it flags and a pen while I read this book, I think every other page would have exuberant underlinings and exclamation marks and asterisks and "THIS!!!" hastily scrawled in the margins, with little pink and orange squares jutting out haphazardly from the corners. It's a stunning book, bizarrely and yet beautifully written.
I wish, I wish, I wish that the rest of Schultz's work hadn't been lost. This is one of my absolute favorites and the thought that there is more out there of this that I can't read just kills me.
Little did I know, they're all there in the original, only richer and more satisfying. If I had been carrying around post-it flags and a pen while I read this book, I think every other page would have exuberant underlinings and exclamation marks and asterisks and "THIS!!!" hastily scrawled in the margins, with little pink and orange squares jutting out haphazardly from the corners. It's a stunning book, bizarrely and yet beautifully written.
I wish, I wish, I wish that the rest of Schultz's work hadn't been lost. This is one of my absolute favorites and the thought that there is more out there of this that I can't read just kills me.