For a moment he stood still in the gateway, sustaining with half-closed eyes the powerful onslaught of the sun. The linen blinds absorbed the morning heat, portion after portion, and sunbathed fainting in the glare.Īt that early hour, my father, unable to sleep any longer, went downstairs loaded with books and ledgers, in order to open the shop, which was on the street level of the building. front of the house slid in waves down the hot surface, trying in vain to penetrate into the depth of golden sleep. Thus, in the stillness of these early hours, it absorbed the first fires of the morning with a sleepy face melting in brilliance, its features slightly twitching from intense dreams. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass is an album by the Cracow Klezmer Band performing compositions written by John Zorn in tribute to the Polish writer Bruno Schultz. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:Īt that solemn hour, unobserved by anyone-while the rooms in the semidarkness of drawn blinds were still filled with the harmonious breathing of sleeping people-its facade bathed in the sun, in the silence of the early haze, as if its surface were decorated by blissfully sleeping eyelids. The Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass is one of two collections of short shories, the other is called the street of crocodilies in Engilsh or sometimes as the Cinamon shops. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass book. What reading level is Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass book? Bruno Schulz is oftern described as being like Kaffka, there is something in this suggestion and indeed he translated Kaffka.
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