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“... commonplace than anything he could ever have dreamed of. In the ‘Afterword’ to this volume by Jerzy Ficowski we are told that Schulz, the third child of a Jewish family, was born in 1892 in the small Polish town of Drohobycz. His father, who had drifted away from the religious orthodoxy of his parents, was a dealer in textiles. The languages used in ...”

“... journals of Gombrowicz and other resistance sources. Then, in 1967, the Polish literary critic Jerzy Ficowski wrote Regions of the Great Heresy, a book that reconstructed Schulz’s biography while also offering a reading of his work as radically original. Around the same time, Celina Wieniewska translated Cinnamon Shops into English. When it was ...”