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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pyotr Stolypin, Bruno Schulz, Tadeusz Ho?ówko, Mykola Skrypnyk, Vadym Hetman, Mykola Leontovych, Yevhen Kushnaryov, Imam Alimsultanov, Stepan Senchuk. Excerpt: Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, graphic artist and literary critic, who is widely regarded as one Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pyotr Stolypin, Bruno Schulz, Tadeusz Ho?ówko, Mykola Skrypnyk, Vadym Hetman, Mykola Leontovych, Yevhen Kushnaryov, Imam Alimsultanov, Stepan Senchuk. Excerpt: Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, graphic artist and literary critic, who is widely regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born, and spent his entire life, in Drohobycz (first Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Poland, Soviet Union, and Ukraine ), in the province of Galicia, to assimilated Jewish parents. He was killed by a German Nazi officer. Biography Bruno Schulz was the son of cloth merchant Jakub Schulz and Henrietta, née Kuhmerker. At a very early age, he developed an interest in the arts. He studied at a gymnasium in Drohobycz from 1902 to 1910, and proceeded to study architecture at Lviv University. In 1917 he briefly studied architecture in Vienna. After World War I, the region of Galicia which included Drohobycz returned to Poland. In the postwar period, Schulz came to teach drawing in a Polish gymnasium, from 1924 to 1941. His employment kept him in his hometown, although he disliked his profession as a schoolteacher, apparently maintaining it only because it was his sole means of income. The author nurtured his extraordinary imagination in a swarm of identities and nationalities: a Jew who thought and wrote in Polish, was fluent in German, and immersed in Jewish culture though unfamiliar with the Yiddish language. Yet there was nothing cosmopolitan about him; his genius fed in solitude on specific local and ethnic sources. He preferred not to leave his provincial hometown, which over the course of his life belonged to four countries. His adult life was often perceived by outsiders as that of a Books, , Deaths-By-Firearm-In-Ukraine~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<