They were published in 1934 under the title of Cinnamon Shops – and the name of Bruno Schulz was made. At the age of forty, having received an introduction through friends to Zofia Nalkowska, a distinguished novelist in Warsaw, he sent her some of his stories. In his leisure hours – of which there were probably many – he made drawings and wrote endlessly, nobody quite knew what. He had few friends outside his native city. He taught art at a secondary school for boys at Drohobycz in southeastern Poland, where he spent most of his life. He was small, unattractive and sickly, with a thin angular body and brown, deep-set eyes in a pale triangular face.
The Street of Crocodiles Translator’s Preface The characters in these stories are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
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