Pages of a bygone era of publishing, these particular pages of which are drenched with dream-prose, yet so full of grey, so many allusions to nothingness. edition (though printed in Poland), with thick pages that every time you turn one you think you’ve paged through at least two. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The library’s copy is from 1963, the first U.S. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
Illustrated with Schulz's original drawings, this edition beautifully showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This volume brings together his complete fiction, including three short stories and his final surviving work, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.
During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable talents gradually won him an international readership. The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick)īruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to modern literature.
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