emilyconstance 's review for:

Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz

3.0

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i loved the first 200 pages... absolutely hated the last 70. i accidentally took a 2-day gap from reading and honestly once i came back to it i was totally disillusioned by it...even tho for the first 200 pgs i was totally loving it. some really beautiful musings on seasons, masculinity vs femininity... a beautiful little short about a puppy that I loved... and I really related to all of the ramblings about the narrator's deteriorating father as it resembled exactly what I went through w my grandma as she slowly faded away with dementia. Definitely agree with another review that I read, however, that he focuses far too much on showing off his techniques and too little on moving us toward anything... so in the end it's a book that I'll remember for some of its ideas, but nothing of its plot.