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The Street of Crocodiles
| Alternate Title: | The Cinnamon Shops |
| Author: | Bruno Schulz |
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Penguin Books, 1992 Original English publication, 1963 Original Polish publication, 1934 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jew killed by the Nazis in 1942, is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars.
Table of Contents:
- August
- Visitation
- Birds
- Tailors' Dummies
- Treatise on Tailors' Dummies or the Second Book of Genesis
- Treatise on Tailors' Dummies: Continuation
- Treatise on Tailors' Dummies: Conclusion
- Nimrod
- Pan
- Mr. Charles
- Cinnamon Shops
- The Street of Crocodiles
- Cocroaches
- The Gale
- The Night of the Great Season
- The Comet
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