Bruno Schulz (1892 - 1942) was a Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy of Literature's prestigious Golden Laurel award. Several of Schulz's works were lost in the Holocaust, including short stories from the early 1940s and his final, unfinished novel The Messiah. Schulz was shot and killed by a German Nazi in 1942 while walking back home toward Drohobycz Ghetto with a loaf of bread. In his brilliant, intensely illuminated fiction, Schulz evoked a glorious world through a magical combination of personal myth, fantasy, and highly sensual language. "If Schulz had been allowed to live out his life," Isaac Bashevis Singer has said, "he might have given us untold treasures, but what he did in his short life was enough to make him one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived". This is the first English translation of Schulz's collected letters, and it includes as well 75 drawings and photos and nine pieces - essays, interviews, and narratives - previously uncollected in English. Schulz's letters shed light on the genesis of his small but stunning literary oeuvre. As it stands, this collection, painstakingly gathered by Jerzy Ficowski over a period of four decades, constitutes a remarkable portrait of a remarkable artist.

Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz: With Selected Prose (English and Polish Edition)

Bruno Schulz

Jerzy Ficowski

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins

"Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers....[His] verbal art strikes usstuns, evenwith its overload of beauty."John Updike Exactly sixty years after his death, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) remains one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writersstill the subject of front-page controversy. Here the renowned Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski presents the first biography of the man who, in the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "wrote sometimes like Kafka, sometimes like Proust, and at times succeeded in reaching depths that neither of them reached." In his novels and storiesThe Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, and his missing masterpiece, The MessiahSchulz employed a baroque, poetic style with a stunning surrealist edge. Including many of Schulz's paintings and personal letters as well as new information on the Mossad's theft of Schulz's murals from Poland in 2001, Regions of the Great Heresy is a cause for international celebrationa long-awaited work that will spark a renaissance of interest in Schulz's life. Published on the 60th anniversary of Schulz's death. 16 pages of color, 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations.

Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, a Biographical Portrait

Arts & Literature

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Folklore collected from the gypsies of Poland which explains how birds know when to sing and why the cloud and sun are enemies.

Sister of the Birds, and Other Gypsy Tales

Abingdon, Nashville

Book by Jerzy Ficowski, Walter Arndt, Bruno Schulz

Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz

Walter, Arndt

Fromm Intl

Regions of the Great Heresy: The Life and Work of Bruno Schulz

Begell House

Bruno Schulz 1892-1942

Hanser, Carl GmbH + Co.

Lodorosty i bluszczary

Wydawnictwo Wolno

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