Bruno Schulz wrote short fiction in which a provincial town, family shops and domestic rooms become unstable landscapes of myth, dream and transformation. The Street of Crocodiles, also known as Cinnamon Shops, follows a narrator's memories of childhood in a fictionalised version of Drohobych, where his father becomes a prophet, inventor, bird keeper and increasingly strange presence. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass returns to many of the same figures and settings, bending time so that memory and reality repeatedly exchange places. Schulz's prose is lush, surreal and image-heavy, giving ordinary objects an almost animate life. His surviving fiction is small in volume but dense in atmosphere. It fits modernist short stories, surreal fiction and Central European literature, particularly for readers of Kafka who want something more baroque and dreamlike. Read more Less
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