Once upon a time, an outstanding playwright said about Drohobych that it is "... a city that seems not to be serious... a city that seems to be from a farce and an operetta, a comic city and the object of jokes, a city of unexpected fortune and collapse, a smuggler and speculator city, a city and a half: half Polish , half-Jewish, half-Ukrainian..."

All these characteristics, dear reader, very aptly describe this publication that you are holding in your hands. Its creators, loved from head to toe, dared to knead their own worldview with the talent of their beloved writer-countryman Bruno Schultz, pour all this into a whimsical artistic form, bake it in the crucible of inspiration and present it to the consumer as a delicate art book.

Here are the most essential and interesting maxims from each chapter of two of Bruno Schulz's most successful works: "Sanatorium under the Hourglass" and "Cinnamon Shops", presented alternately in Polish and Ukrainian. This is a kind of international "digest-concentrate" of creativity and wisdom, resistant to destructive influences in time and space.

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