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- Cinnamon Shops (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Street of Crocodiles (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz (Magill's Literary Annual 1989)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Bruno Schulz
Biography
Bruno Schulz (shults) is one of the greatest figures in Polish modernist literature of the period between the world wars and one of the most original European fiction writers of the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in the small town of Drohobycz in the Polish province of Galicia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today part of Ukraine), the son of a Jewish merchant, Jakub Schulz, and his wife, Henrietta Schulz. His family’s faith was Mosaic, but the language they mostly spoke was Polish. Schulz went a step further than his parents toward...
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