A review by ericfheiman
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz

3.0

Crocodiles is a feverish dream of a book. Schulz surely wrote some of the most evocative sentences in all of literature, and it's easy to draw lines of influence to other more contemporary writers, such as the Italo Calvino of the surreal Invisible Cities. The eponymous story in this collection is probably its most memorable one and requires multiple readings to fully appreciate. (The whole book probably requires this kind of close reading, to be honest.) Those looking for strong narratives in their fiction might be a bit bored here, though. My 3-star rating is a tentative one, simply because I need to spend more time with this work to fully appreciate it.