Cinnamon Shops (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bruno Schulz
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: A small city in Poland
- Principal Characters: The narrator, His father, His mother, Professor Arendt, An old cab horse
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Parents and children, Surrealism, Fathers, Imagination, Adventure, Boys
- Locales: Poland
The Story
On winter days, the narrator's father communes with an invisible world that he shares with the family cat. To distract him, his mother arranges to have the family attend the theater. Before the curtain rises, however, the father notices that he has left at home his “wallet containing money and certain most important documents.” The boy is sent home to fetch it.
He steps into a clear winter night and soon finds his imagination creating “illusory maps of the apparently familiar districts.” Soon the town dissolves into “the tissue of dreams.” He looks...
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