The Street of Crocodiles
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140042276 (014004227X)
Publish date: January 27th 1977
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 1981-05-30)Why do I read? To learn, to experience worlds, emotions, interactions that I don't experience in my reality, to think, to be, to become.If not for Huxley - recommended by an English teacher at school - I'd have remained a working class racist, sexist homophobe, would nev...
Bruno Schulz had an imagination like no one else. His metaphors, similes, and personifications whirl the reader through a cosmos as vivid and surreal as Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” His characters prophesy like the enigmatic beings that inhabit the pages of William Blake. At once fiction and nonfictio...
To był błąd. Ponieważ dopiero skończyłam czytać jedną książkę o Rosji a właśnie czeka na mnie lektura Akunina, zdecydowałam się przedzielić obie pozycje jakąś inną książką. Mój wzrok padł na półkę, skąd smutnie spoglądał na mnie egzemplarz połączonych Sklepów cynamonowych i Sanatorium pod Klepsydr...
Street of Crocodiles is a very haunting book, and the author's life story is even more bizarre. He was an artist and writer living in a Poland in 1941 under the occupation of the Nazis. He was kept alive because a particular officer liked his art. However, he was murdered by another officer when he ...
Street of Crocodiles is a very haunting book, and the author's life story is even more bizarre. He was an artist and writer living in a Poland in 1941 under the occupation of the Nazis. He was kept alive because a particular officer liked his art. However, he was murdered by another officer when he ...
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