The Street of Crocodiles

Bruno Schulz · 1892–1942 · Poland (Galicia)

Originally Sklepy Cynamonowe (Polish)

Why it matters

A Galician shop town transfigured: Father breeds birds in the attic and argues with tailors' dummies about matter's suffering. Prose as dense as poetry: one of the two slim books by which Schulz outlived his murderers.

At a glance

Densely metaphorical, image-saturated prose with little conventional plot to orient the reader.