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A review by wintermute314
The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
4.0
(This review is of the first part "Street of crocodiles").
The book consists of chapters that are almost short stories in the sense that they are very loosely linked to each other.
The narrative is very poetic and often the imagery crosses the line of realism and becomes hallucinatory. The richness of the imagery colours otherwise mundane scenes and events. Nothing much happens in the real world but in the minds of the protagonists epic events take place.
I cannot compare the translation to the original text but the english version is highly literary and poetic.
The book consists of chapters that are almost short stories in the sense that they are very loosely linked to each other.
The narrative is very poetic and often the imagery crosses the line of realism and becomes hallucinatory. The richness of the imagery colours otherwise mundane scenes and events. Nothing much happens in the real world but in the minds of the protagonists epic events take place.
I cannot compare the translation to the original text but the english version is highly literary and poetic.