Description
In a small, half-real city of Galicia, a boy’s imagination and memory braid together to form a portrait of family, neighborhood life, and the unsettling drift of modernity. Through a sequence of lyrical, dreamlike stories, the narrator revisits streets, shops, and figures from his childhood as the city itself becomes a living metaphor—part wonder, part decay, where fantasy and reality continually blur. Themes of identity, artistic creation, cultural change, and the fragility of perception pulse beneath Schulz’s richly symbolic prose, which turns everyday details into uncanny revelations. With its ornate, metaphor-driven style and intimate, mythic atmosphere, this collection invites readers to experience a world that feels both intimately observed and eerily transformed.
Available Editions
paperback
Picador 1980.
Published Jan 1, 1980
112 pages
ISBN: 9780330259767
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Details
First Published
1963
Language
eng
Translation
From: pol
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz.