Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories - Bruno Schulz

Category: Anthology, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Polish Literature Short Story Collection Surrealism

Written by Bruno Schulz
Read by Steven Ritz-Barr
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

The best of cult author Bruno Schulz

In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms.

Crowded with moments of stunning beauty, the stories in this collection showcase Schulz’s darkly modern sensibility, and his essential status as one of the great transformers of the ordinary into the fantastical:

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

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

Undula - Schulz’s recently discovered first published story

Translated and with a foreword by Stanley Bill

6 hrs and 7 mins
May 7, 2025