Waiting for the Dog to Sleep

by Jerzy Ficowski

Waiting for the Dog to Sleep is poet, translator, and scholar Jerzy Ficowski's only collection of prose. In these short fictions and sketches Ficowski reinterprets a question posed by the writer central to him, Bruno Schulz, about the mythologization of reality. For Schulz, fiction was a way of turning the quotidian into the fantastical and eternal. Ficowski's prose seems to reinterpret this approach to address the sense of loss and bleak landscape...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8086264246
• ISBN13: 9788086264240
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.0"