The Reception of Bruno Schulz in Greece

Abstract

Bruno Schulz is not particularly well known in Greece. For the first time, his short stories were translated into Greek in the early 1980s, when Spiros Tsaknias, a poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator from Athens, translated for the To Dentro literary monthly “The Street of Crocodiles” (1980) and “The Gale” (1982). Most likely, both texts were translated not from Polish, but from English. More translations of Schulz into Greek appeared in the late 1980s, and since then many have been published. The problems faced by the Greek translators of Schulz deserve a separate study.