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The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz 9781447219477
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44The stories in these pages comprise all the surviving fiction of a man described by John Updike in the introduction as 'one of the great transmogrifiers of the world into words'. They portray the... -
Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz 9780810136601
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24Collected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer,... -
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz 9780413738707
Booksplease Price: $18.37"Complicite not only open our eyes to Bruno Schulz but turn his densely impressionistic stories into a piece of vividly imaginative theatre" (Michael Billington, Guardian) The Street of Crocodiles is... -
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105145Author Bruno SchulzFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint < -
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History by Benjamin Balint
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $28.50The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West... -
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine by Omer Bartov
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.56In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace... -
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine by Omer Bartov 9780691131214
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace... -
Complicite Plays: 1: Street of Crocodiles; Mnemonic; The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol by Complicité 9780413773838
Booksplease Price: $31.77THE STREET OF CROCODILES is inspired by the life and stories of Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). "This astounding play creates a vision of provincial Poland in the early part of the century as... -
Insatiability by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.33This novel, the author's masterpiece, is one of the greatest expressions ever of the tortured intersection of political and personal destinies in Eastern Europe. Futuristic, experimental, and... -
Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno... -
Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film by Idit Alphandary 9783112215357
RRP: $23.87Booksplease Price: $17.18The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Amery, to make sense of the... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.35The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first... -
Adventures In Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he... -
You've Told Me Before Jennifer Moses 9780299354442
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.23Sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, and always compelling, the stories in this collection explore the many manifestations of being Jewish in a modern and largely secular world. Jennifer Anne Moses... -
Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom: Sociocultural Development, 1866-1914 by Raluca Golesteanu-Jacobs 9781032549088
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.96This comparative attempt, intended for postgraduates and scholars of Eastern-Central Europe, investigates the political, economic, and cultural landscape of Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom... -
Open Strings by Gordon Simms 9781788649735
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Following Roy's boyhood in post-war rural Bedfordshire Open Strings immerses us in the countryside with its changing seasons and characters who accompany Roy as he makes the transition from childhood... -
Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century Maïa Hruska 9780008768614
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.20'A book to underline endlessly, to dog-ear, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder' Polly Barton ... -
The Vivisectors Missouri Williams 9780008725280
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.50'A novel to marvel at ... ingenious' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH 'Astonishing' MICHAEL MAGEE 'Wicked and beguiling' AMY TWIGG The acclaimed author of The Doloriad... -
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The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus 9781847086242 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.11A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and... -
The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture by Larry Wolff 9780804783125
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.66Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there... -
Anti-basilisk by Christopher Middleton 9781857547894
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $12.38In The Anti-Basilisk Christopher Middleton, in the spirit that impelled Shelley to write The Masque of Anarchy, reveals as crooked the apparently straight and sees what's coming round corners with a...