Bruno Schulz

The Fictions of Bruno Schulz

The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

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Produktbeschreibung

In November 1942, Bruno Schulz, teacher of drawing and handicrafts at a boysâ college in Drohobycz, was shot dead by a Gestapo officer as he brought home a loaf of bread.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781447219477
• ISBN-10: 1447219473
• Artikelnr.: 44002322

Autorenporträt

Bruno Schulz was born in 1892. He lived in Drohobycz, Galicia, where he taught art at a secondary school, and drew and wrote in his spare time. In 1934 he published a collection of stories, Cinnamon Shops, followed by another, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, three years later. During the Second World War, he was confined to the ghetto in Drohobycz. One day in 1942, he ventured to the `Aryan¿ quarter, where he was recognized by a Gestapo officer and shot dead in the street.