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BRUNO SCHULZ "THE COMPLETE PROSE"
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Author: Bruno Schulz
Translator: Alexandra D. Ioannidou
Publisher: Kastaniotis Editions
Year: 2019
Number of pages: 482
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Bruno Schulz's prose is renowned for its originality. His expressionist stories, set in a fantastical space similar to his hometown, poetically elevate the everyday to the realm of myth. His usual themes – the wind, a piece of clothing, a plate of fish – suddenly appear mysterious, bizarre, and capable of illuminating deeper truths. As the father, one of the most attractive characters created by the author, notes somewhere, "matter has been endowed with endless fertility, an inexhaustible vital force, and at the same time a captivating power of temptation that draws us to create forms." This volume includes his two published collections of short stories, The Cinnamon Shops and The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, as well as his other writings, which complete the precious body of his literary production. Bruno Schulz, an authentic magician of the Polish language, who has been compared to Kafka and Proust, reveals the processes of memory and human consciousness with a stunning mastery. His language is identified with the atmosphere and precision of dreams. "We find it difficult to categorize Schulz. We can characterize him as a surrealist, a symbolist, an expressionist, a modernist... He writes sometimes like Kafka and sometimes like Proust, and occasionally manages to penetrate depths that none of them ever reached... If they had allowed Schulz to exhaust his life, he might have bequeathed us unspeakable treasures, but even what he managed to deposit in his brief passage through this world is enough for us to consider him one of the greatest writers who ever existed." Isaac Bashevis Singer "Schulz's beautiful, sensitive, and substantial stories elevated the Polish language to a completely different level. I love him, but I also hate him because he remains simply unmatched. He is the unsurpassed genius of Polish literature." Olga Tokarczuk "Imaginative, stimulating in capturing lived experience, refined in style, witty, imbued with some mystic yet cohesive aesthetic of the ideal, Schulz's prose constitutes unique literary works that surprise us, seeming to emerge from nowhere... Schulz was incomparably gifted as an explorer of his own innermost life, which is simultaneously the inner life of childhood memory and artistic creation. From the first springs the charm and originality of his stories, from the second their intellectual power." J. M. Coetzee "Every time I return to his books, I am always amazed at how this author, a simple man who rarely left his hometown, created an entire world, an alternative version of reality... His stories create a magical universe, the private mythology of a family, and are written with words that overflow with life, with a language that ultimately becomes the protagonist of the narratives, as it constitutes the only dimension in which these stories could exist... Each page bursts forth, exploding with a vitality worthy of true life." David Grossman