Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz

by Maxim Biller

  RED LOVE: THE STORY OF AN EAST GERMAN FAMILY

  MAXIM LEO

  ‘Beautiful and supremely touching… an unbearably poignant description of a world that no longer exists’ Sunday Telegraph

  THE BREAK

  PIETRO GROSSI

  ‘Small and perfectly formed… reaching its end leaves the reader desirous to start all over again’ Independent

  FROM THE FATHERLAND, WITH LOVE

  RYU MURAKAMI

  ‘If Haruki is The Beatles of Japanese literature, Ryu is its Rolling Stones’ David Pilling

  BUTTERFLIES IN NOVEMBER

  AUÐUR AVA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR

  ‘A funny, moving and occasionally bizarre exploration of life’s upheavals and reversals’ Financial Times

  BARCELONA SHADOWS

  MARC PASTOR

  ‘As gruesome as it is gripping… the writing is extraordinarily vivid… Highly recommended’ Independent

  THE LAST DAYS

  LAURENT SEKSIK

  ‘Mesmerising… Seksik’s portrait of Zweig’s final months is dignified and tender’ Financial Times

  BY BLOOD

  ELLEN ULLMAN

  ‘Delicious and intriguing’ Daily Telegraph

  WHILE THE GODS WERE SLEEPING

  ERWIN MORTIER

  ‘A monumental, phenomenal book’ De Morgen

  THE BRETHREN

  ROBERT MERLE

  ‘A master of the historical novel’ Guardian

  Copyright

  Pushkin Press

  71–75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ

  Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller was originally published in Germany as Im Kopf von Bruno Schulz © 2013, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne

  ‘Birds’ and ‘Cinnamon Shops’ from The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, © C. J. Schulz 1963, © Jakob Schulz 1977, 1978. Originally published in Polish as Sklepy cynamonowe, 1934. Translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska, first published by Walker and Company in 1963. Reproduced with the kind permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

  English translation © 2015 Anthea Bell

  This translation first published by Pushkin Press in 2015

  ISBN 978 1 782271 44 4

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from Pushkin Press

  www.pushkinpress.com