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	Fetish, Filth and Childhood: Walking down The Street of Crocodiles
		The characterisation of the puppet and the doll as father and son – adulthood and childhood – can thus be seen to coincide with the film's thematic and formal concern with the outmoded spaces of disused materials, the sexual fetish and its substitute in the commercial world of fashion and taste.
		Similarly, The Street of Crocodiles is less a representation of the Freudian unconscious, but is set within a mythic temporality akin to Benjamin's arcades where the non-organic form is as much a witness of experience as the organic form.
		This is particularly relevant here insofar as The Street of Crocodiles, as well as the writings of Schulz and Benjamin, create a miniature world that incorporates both the fantastic and the didactic, as well as offering an infinite space in which the viewer or the reader loses their own sense of reality, however momentarily.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/36/street_of_crocodiles.html (3320 words)

	Kinoeye \| The Brothers Quay and Bruno Schulz
		The Quays' 21-minute-long animated film Street of Crocodiles (1986) adapted from ("inspired by" is, perhaps, a more accurate description) the short story of the same name by Schulz, was their first film shot in 35mm and is widely regarded as their masterpiece.
		Street of Crocodiles, as well as most of the Quays' short films, conjures up a world of aberrations existing just beneath the façade of our everyday reality where myth and pathology intertwine.
		Unlike the baroque detailing of the rest of the map, the area representing the part of town called the Street of Crocodiles is marked by predominantly white, empty space.
	www.kinoeye.org /04/05/fiumara05.php (2122 words)

	Cover to Cover - The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz - Printer-Friendly
		THE STREET OF CROCODILES in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic.
		The animated puppet drama Street of Crocodiles is based on stories written by Bruno Schultz during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
		The Street of Crocodiles previous incarnation, performed at the Cottesloe in 1992, was nominated for four Olivier Awards.
	www.joi.org /books/reading/streetofcrocs_print.htm (751 words)

	Akira Rabelais / The Street Of Crocodiles
		In that section of the map, the engraver concentrated on the complicated and manifold profusion of streets and alleyways, the sharp lines of cornices, architraves, archivolts and pilasters, lit by the dark gold of a late and cloudy afternoon which steeped all corners and recesses in the deep sepia of shade.
		On that map, made in the style of baroque panoramas, the area of the Street of Crocodiles shone with the empty whiteness that usually marks polar regions or unexplored countries of which almost nothing is known.
		The street is as broad as a city boulevard, but the roadway is made, like village squares, of beaten clay, full of puddles and overgrown with grass.
	www.akirarabelais.com /brunoschulz/streetofcrocodiles.html (2889 words)

	Great Books Foundation¨
		In The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz’s collection of interlinked stories, the most prosaic elements of everyday life become fantastic, full of mystery, capable of containing and at times revealing the deepest secrets of existence.
		One way of answering this question is to note that The Street of Crocodiles is the product of the narrator’s memory, the operations of which can as easily be called invention as recollection (as seen in Proust, to whom Schulz is sometimes compared).
		The Street of Crocodiles suggests that our individuality, if given full expression, fulfills the somewhat contrary ends of giving shape and color to an otherwise dreary world while separating us from those with whom we would share the pleasures to be found in a world so completely alive.
	www.greatbooks.org /library/guides/the-street-of-crocodiles.html (1845 words)

	Theatre de Complicite's play The Street of Crocodiles on stage in London's West End Queen's theatre - ticket buying and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Originally co-produced with the Royal National Theatre, The Street of Crocodiles previous incarnation, performed at the Cottesloe in 1992, was nominated for four Olivier Awards.
		Prior to it's return to the West End, director and co-adaptor Simon McBurney said: "The Street of Crocodiles was originally created with a direct link to the author and his background; Jacob Schulz, Bruno Schulz's nephew was central to the creation of the piece.
		Street of Crocodiles, inspired by Schulz's stories with extracts adapted by Simon McBurney and Mark Wheatley, premiered at the National in 1992, then triumphantly toured the world.
	www.albemarle-london.com /streetofcroc.html (1185 words)

	The Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Street of Crocodiles is the story of a year of Schulz childhood, an obviously fictional year, but a time that was mundane yet fantastic, commonplace and bizarre.
		Or, The Street of Crocodiles, the false namesake of the book - which was actually titled Cinammon Shops in Poland - a decadent, dirty arrangement of streets and buildings where anything and anyone is a commodity for purchase and use.
		However, The depravity, the immorality, the cheapness of the Street of Crocodiles is so great that they fail even at being depraved, revealed to instead be a mockery of a corrupt suburb, a sham crudity, a false crime.
	www.travelreviewbooks.com /The_Street_of_Crocodiles_Penguin_TwentiethCentury_Classics_0140186255.html (1157 words)

	Violet Books: Bruno Schulz
		But any tendency to imagine Bruno depressed & isolated like the lad in Street of Crocodiles must be tempered by the mood of his decadent, aesthetic drawings that reveal a man who is not miserably trapped, but exultantly fascinated by the dark.
		In The Street of Crocodiles the Drohobycz shtetl is transformed into a phantasmagorically doom-laden universe finite but eternal, wherein an autobiographically imagined boy's spectral wizened father haunts every private thought & passageway.
		The curious blend of masochism & heroism in his fantasy art & tales was shown truly to be one & the same with his actual spirit, by his boldness in leaving the ghetto to get food for his family & friends, even when Gestapo or SS officers were shooting Jews on sight.
	www.violetbooks.com /brunoschulz.html (517 words)

	Eye Weekly - Theatre - Street of Crocodiles - 07.30.98
		Harbourfront Centre's visiting production of The Street of Crocodiles -- adapted from Schulz's short stories by British director Simon McBurney and his upstart touring company Théatre de Complicité -- is a remount of a show which played to raves in London in 1994, and has just finished a sold-out run in New York.
		The Street of Crocodiles begins at the end of Schulz's life, when he served (unwillingly) as a draftsman -- a so-called "useful Jew" -- for an officer of the occupying Nazis in the Drohobycz ghetto.
		Schulz was gunned down in the street by a rival officer in 1942, in retaliation for a similar incident involving his own protector.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.30.98/art/theatre30.html (877 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		When the cast leave the stage at the end of The Street Of Crocodiles at the Queen's Theatre, they leave behind a small forest of debris: sawdust, feathers, hacked-up wood.
		The Street of Crocodiles is an attempt to snatch forms out of the air, to fight an extended battle against vagueness, void and entropy.
		British-based film-makers the Brothers Quay are devoted Schulzians, using his writing as inspiration for their films, and especially for the medium-length The Street Of Crocodiles - not strictly an adaptation of his stories, more an evocation of their mood, a battle fought out between murderous dolls and staged in a peep-show sarcophagus.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3852218,00.html (750 words)

	Amazon.com: The Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics): Books: Bruno Schulz,Jerzy Ficowski,Celina ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Street of Crocodiles is the story of a year of Schulz' childhood, an obviously fictional year, but a time that was mundane yet fantastic, commonplace and bizarre.
		Or, 'The Street of Crocodiles', the false namesake of the book - which was actually titled 'Cinammon Shops' in Poland - a decadent, dirty arrangement of streets and buildings where anything and anyone is a commodity for purchase and use.
		However, The depravity, the immorality, the cheapness of the Street of Crocodiles is so great that they fail even at being depraved, revealed to instead be a mockery of a corrupt suburb, a sham crudity, a false crime.
	www.amazon.com /Street-Crocodiles-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140186255 (2332 words)

	Zeitgeist Films \| Street of Crocodiles
		The Quays’ masterpiece, STREET OF CROCODILES is adapted from a short story by Polish writer Bruno Schulz, and was their first film shot on 35mm.
		A museum keeper spits into the eyepiece of an ancient peep-show and sets the musty machine in motion, plunging the viewer into a nightmarish netherworld of bizarre puppet rituals among the dirt and grime.
		Myth stalks the streets of this parasitical zone where the mythological ascension of the everyday is charted by a marginal interloper who threads himself through this one night of the Great Season.
	www.zeitgeistfilms.com /film.php?directoryname=streetofcrocodiles (182 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - The Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Bruno Schulz, reviewed ...
		He was killed by the Nazis in 1942; The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass, a novel, are his major surviving works.
		The Street of Crocodiles is a series of interlocking stories, stories which refer to, twist back through, and sometimes contradict each other.
		Schulz's character development is accomplished, often conjuring a whole personality by the tilt of an eyebrow, but the star of the book, the narrator's father, an inspiring and disturbing blend of mad scientist and biblical revolutionary, is the subject of many of the stories.
	www.powells.com /review/2004_06_12.html (395 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In addition to two small volumes, "The Street of Crocodiles" and "Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass," Schulz left behind drawings that reveal an unrequited and uneasy sexual obsessiveness that lies somewhere between Lewis Carroll and Robert Crumb.
		The stories in "The Street of Crocodiles" have formed the basis of a short film by the Quay Brothers, a pair of idiosyncratic British animators, but a first guess is that translating Schulz's prose to the stage is next to impossible.
		McBurney and for the writers who have championed the author of "The Street of Crocodiles," and as a metaphor, Schulz is replete with meaning.
	www.forward.com /issues/1998/98.07.17/arts.html (1178 words)

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		Crocodiles feeding in water by Creatas Stock Footage.
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	www.herpsearch.com /?q=Crocodiles&s=770 (261 words)

	Street of Crocodiles (1986) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Street of Crocodiles is a short they made, and is full of unbelievable animation.
		An incredible mix of objects are used for the props and characters, creating strange effects and meanings.
		The visual style of Street of Crocodiles has been copied in many recent stop-go animation films, including many of the music videos for the band Tool.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0092020 (296 words)

	caiman - Animal Information and Pictures [Beta]
		Crocodiles are not native to the south China region and the sighting of such a potentially deadly reptile for the first time in Hong Kong has caused a sensation...
		Crocodiles are not native to the south China region and the first sighting of the reptile has sparked a sensation in Hong Kong.
		Crocodiles are not native to the south China region and the sighting of such a potentially deadly reptile for the first time in Hong Kong, which has banned the...
	animals.mongabay.com /crocodiles.html (11390 words)

	Street of Crocodiles (1986) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But seeing Street of Crocodiles really made it for me in terms of connecting it to other Quay brothers work, in terms of how their surreal representations and obsessions and neuroses come into their work, and how it pulled off so well this time.
		A lot of time their avant-garde impulses almost get the better of them, and many a fantastic image and sound is presented but without much context, leaving it almost impenetrable.
		Featuring some of the most inventive production design I've seen in any stop-motion film, and cinematography that still stuns me hours after watching it, it's a real little marvel of what can come out of the darkest corners of the mind, put to light and molded with the utmost care.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0092020 (418 words)

	Alibris: Crocodiles
		The Enormous Crocodile loves to make his meals of fresh, juicy children, and the town near his river is full of them.
		Then he meets three nasty creatures who not only convince him that he is, like them, a crocodile, but also try to persuade him to deliver his duck relatives for their dinner.
		But when the crocodiles attack the guide, injuring him gravely, it will be up to Akimbo to cross a crocodile-infested river and jump start a truck to bring back help.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Crocodiles (1061 words)

	MetaxuCafe Forums \| Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles
		I find that title, and the story it refers to, is breathtakingly fantastic, whereas Street of Crocodiles borders on grotesque.
		I actually liked the bizareness of the Street of Crocodiles story, how at the end he says everything is so much more mundane and boring that he had actually imagined it.
		The Crocodiles story has a similar tone, but the rest are filled with awe and are more life-affirming than anything by Kafka.
	metaxucafe.com /cafe/forums/viewthread/82 (1442 words)

	Crocodiles - pictures, alligators, difference alligators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Crocodiles' anti-bodies able to overcome HIV virus Scientists in Australia's tropical north are collecting blood from crocodiles in the hope of developing a powerful antibiotic for humans, after tests showed that the reptile's immune system kills the HIV virus
		Four illegal crocodiles take a bite out of crime Tokyo police have arrested a reptile wholesaler from Shizuoka and two other people on suspicion of illegally breeding and falsely registering four false gavials, a type of endangered crocodile, it was learned Wednesday
		Baby crocodiles' sale probed AUTHORITIES are to investigate the illegal sale of baby crocodiles, which are being smuggled into the country and sold as pets It follows a tip-off to the GDN, which was alerted to illegal animal trading by a concerned reader after posters started appearing in supermarkets
	www.smorgasbordnet.com /crocodiles.html (539 words)

	Amazon.com: The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993: DVD: Feliks Stawinski,Joy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This is directly alluded to in the subtitle of one of their most handsome films, "The Comb (From the Museum of Sleep)," where scenes of a latticework of ladders shooting through an angular construction are intercut with shots of a sleeping woman.
		"Street of Crocodiles," their most famous short work, references turn-of-the-century cinema as a man peers through a Kinetoscope to watch the nightmare-tinged fantasy of a figure overwhelmed by mysterious forces on the deserted streets of a city after dark.
		Street changed me. It hand a profound effect on me. I was 19 years old when I first saw it, I'm now 41.
	www.amazon.com /Brothers-Quay-Collection-Astonishing-1984-1993/dp/6305957681 (2389 words)

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		He became tongue-tied when he tried to write for a general audience, so he wrote Street of Crocodiles in a series of letters to a friend.
		In what seems to me to be a stunning betrayal, she published them, and after that he hardly wrote anything at all, because he had become one of the most celebrated authors in Poland, and he was paralyzed by self-consciousness.
		In "Street of Crocodiles", Schulz transforms his father into a stuffed condor and a cockroach, among other things.
	webhome.idirect.com /~wbanks/crocodiles.html (268 words)

	Polish culture: Bruno Schulz
		He viewed Drohobych to be the center of the world and was a penetrating observer of life there, proving himself an excellent "chronicler." His writings and his art are both saturated with the realities of Drohobych.
		His stories are replete with descriptions of the town's main streets and landmarks, as well as with images of its inhabitants.
		The year 2001 brought the resolution of another mystery: a series of murals painted by Schulz just before his tragic death (on November 19, 1942, the writer and artist was shot in the streets of Drohobych by a member of the Gestapo) in "Landau's Villa" in Drohobych.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/os_schulz_bruno (1523 words)

	Slaves of Golconda
		The Street of Crocodiles is a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories (or novel, depending on who you talk to) originally published in 1934 under the title Cinnamon Shops, set in the small town of Drohobycz in southern Poland, where Bruno Schulz, its author, lived his entire life.
		Schulz died in 1942, at the age of 50, gunned down in the street by an SS agent.
		The Street of Crocodiles is a novella by a Polish writer who was killed by the Nazis during WWII.
	slavesofgolconda.blogspot.com (4240 words)

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	A CurtainUp Review: The Street of Crocodiles
		The Theatre de Complicite's production of The Street of Crocodiles is a succession of hallucinatory images, changing restlessly like the colorful patterns in a spinning kaleidoscope.
		As it demonstrated on Broadway last season with its widely admired revival of Ionesco's The Chairs, the London-based Theatre de Complicite is a probing and inventive troupe known for its daring blend of movement, rhythms and imagery.
		With Crocodiles, the company summons up the essence of Schulz's formative experiences in masterly stage pictures that are swiftly transformed into new and surprising ones.
	www.curtainup.com /crocodil.html (685 words)

	The Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Through his childs eyes, events, sensations, ideas and thoughts are conveyed with brilliant, dazzling imagery, vivid, almost too-bright pictures are painted with words in a way that is both surreal, magical and ordinary.
		The other stories are similarly bizarre, by turns brilliantly insightful - The Birds chapter, while suitably odd, could also quite easily be read as a mans attempt to occupy himself upon a forced retirement, and failing because he doesnt know of any other life but work - or delightfully, guiltily weird and interesting.
		Schulz pen was unfortunately darkened much too soon, thanks to a case of petty internal politics between SS soldiers, which resulted in the Polish Jews death, and it is our great loss.
	www.history-europe.com /The_Street_of_Crocodiles_Penguin_TwentiethCentury_Classics_0140186255.html (1157 words)

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