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The Street of Crocodiles

Bruno Schulz

Form
Form Short Story
Year
Year 1934
Originally in
Originally in Polish
Pages
Pages 160

A boy remembers his childhood in a Polish market town as pure mythology, where seasons have moods, shops breathe, and his shopkeeper father keeps transforming into birds and cockroaches.

Let us say it bluntly: the misfortune of that area is that nothing ever succeeds there, nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion.
The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz

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