{"product_id":"collected-stories-9780810136601","title":"Collected Stories","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Found in Translation Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Philip Roth, Danilo Kis, and Roberto Bolaño. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Schulz's prose is renowned for its originality. Set largely in a fictional counterpart of his hometown of Drohobych, his stories merge the real and the surreal. The most ordinary objects-the wind, an article of clothing, a plate of fish-can suddenly appear unfathomably mysterious and capable of illuminating profound truths. As Father, one of his most intriguing characters, declaims: \"Matter has been granted infinite fecundity, an inexhaustible vital force, and at the same time, a seductive power of temptation that entices us to create forms.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This comprehensive volum\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e brings together all of Schulz's published stories-\u003ci\u003eCinnamon Shops\u003c\/i\u003e, his most famous collection (sometimes titled \u003ci\u003eThe Street of Crocodiles\u003c\/i\u003e in English), \u003ci\u003eThe Sanatorium under the Hourglass\u003c\/i\u003e, and an additional four stories that he did not include in either of his collections. Madeline G. Levine's masterful new translation shows contemporary readers how Schulz, often compared to Proust and Kafka, reveals the workings of memory and consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRUNO SCHULZ\u003c\/b\u003e (1892-1942) was a Polish Jew born in Drohobych, at the time a city in Austrian Galicia. He published two volumes of short fiction during his life. Shot in the street by a Nazi officer in German-occupied Drohobych, Schulz achieved posthumous fame as one of the most influential European fiction writers of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMADELINE G. LEVINE\u003c\/b\u003e is Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her translations from the Polish include \u003ci\u003eThe Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e by Hanna Krall, \u003ci\u003eBread for the Departed\u003c\/i\u003e by Bogdan Wojdowski, and four volumes of prose by Czeslaw Milosz, including \u003ci\u003eBeginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections and Milosz's ABC's.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRIVKA GALCHEN \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of three books, including the novel \u003ci\u003eAtmospheric Disturbances\u003c\/i\u003e. A frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, she has been awarded numerous prizes and fellowships and was included on the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker's \u003c\/i\u003e\"20 under 40\" list of fiction writers.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50617160925458,"sku":"9780810136601","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d92e4a3a-0b37-4559-8fc3-bb83e493db7f.jpg?v=1732512510","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/collected-stories-9780810136601","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}