Most memorable is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. The story abounds in fantastical elements, introduced by means of the visionary and dreamlike literary style characteristic of Schulz's work.
It tells the story of a merchant family from a small Galician town which resembles the writer's home town, Drohobycz, in many respects, allegorizing the author's own boyhood.
Schulz's best-known work, The Street of Crocodiles (Polish: Sklepy cynamonowe, "Cinnamon Shops") is a 1934 collection of short stories. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Bruno Schulz (1892 – 1942) was a Polish Jewish writer, artist, literary critic and art teacher.
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