Nocturnal Apparitions

Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer and artist who has influenced writers including Salman Rushdie, Roberto Bolaño, David Grossman and Cynthia Ozick. He was born and lived most of his life in the town of Drohobych, once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, then Poland, and now part of Ukraine. He published two collections of short stories - Cinnamon Shops and The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - during his lifetime. Schulz was shot and killed by a German SS officer in Drohobych in 1942. His unfinished novel, The Messiah, was lost in the Holocaust.

Stanley Bill's sensitively translated new selection... offers anglophone readers a profoundly satisfying immersion in [Schulz's] lushness... Bill, an accomplished scholar of Polish literature, demonstrates an artist's sense of where to adhere to the original and where to depart... Stanley Bill's recasting of Bruno Schulz's stories is sure to plant the author more firmly in the hearts of new and returning readers, restoring him to the centre of the literary conversation.