31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
A life nearly wrecked — and then rescued — by books
The narrator of the first story in 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass,' a fantastical collection of interlinked stories by the mid-century Polish master Bruno Schulz, is in search of The Book. Which book? The Book, of course, the one that will change everything — the salvational text that all avid readers hold out hope of finding on the shelves of a used-book store or buried beneath a forgotten pile. This Book will be the culmination of our many years of reading; it will make both sense and magic of the world.
