![]() In parts it makes no sense, but if you let the words wash over you, there is meaning all the same. It is a fantasy of the end of the world, an elegy to the death of a Galician town and its way of life. ![]() It is a comic memoir with Schulz as the young narrator and his eccentric father as the main character. ![]() "The dark second-floor apartment of the house in Market Square was shot through each day by the naked heat of summer: the silence of the shimmering streaks of air, the squares of brightness dreaming their intense dreams on the floor the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of a day two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon." Schulz's descriptions are like paintings, but more, because the objects are active and sounds, movement and colours all play a part. His novel, The Messiah, and his unpublished writings were lost. Only two books by Schultz were published before he was murdered by the Gestapo in 1942. ![]() It began as a series of letters from the reclusive Schulz to a friend, Deborah Vogel. This book was first published, in Polish, in 1934. ![]()
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