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Nocturnal Apparitions

Essential Stories

Bruno Schulz author Stanley Bill translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Published:24th Nov '22

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The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms. Crowded with moments of stunning beauty, the stories in this collection showcase Schulz's darkly modern sensibility, and his status as one of the great transformers of the ordinary into the fantastical.

"An accessible, exhilarating introduction to Schulz’s oeuvre."
--The Washington Post

“Stanley Bill’s translations come as an invigorating reminder of the uncanny verbal sorcery behind this unique voice and vision.... The results, hauntingly phrased, can be suitably weird—but never impenetrable... Bill catches the outrageous wit of Schulz’s nightmare tableaux,”
--The Wall Street Journal

ISBN: 9781782277897

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

240 pages