Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories-Fast Shipping

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A stunning new collection featuring fresh translations of Bruno Schulz’s 15 most captivating short stories, in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition

Includes a new translation of a recently discovered story, believed to be the first-ever published work by this legendary cult writer

Thestories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery andwonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Greatflocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appearthrough cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen fromuniversity buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops andendless storms.

Crowded with moments of stunning beauty, the 15 stories in his collectionshowcases Schulz’s darkly modern sensibility, and his essential status as oneof the great transformers of the ordinary into the fantastical:

• August, A Visitation, Birds, Pan, Cinnamon Shops, The Street of Crocodiles, Cockroaches, The Gale, The Night of the Great Season (from Cinnamon Shops)

• The Book, The Age of Genius, A July Night, My Father Joins the Firefighters, Father’s Final Escape (from Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass)

• Undula–a new translation of Schulz’s recently discovered first published story