This author was killed by a Nazi for wandering into the "Aryan" section of his hometown of Drohobych, which provides the setting for a collection of stories describing the cinnamon shops of the title road.
A story by this writer opens with the observation that "thrones wilt when they are not fed with blood" and concludes that Franz Joseph is a "powerful, but sad Demiurge." In another of his stories, a woman named Adela uses her broom to clean birds from the attic of the narrator's father. This author ‘s "The Night of the Great Season" is set during the "hunchback'd" thirteenth month of the calendar, and like "Tailors' Dummies," features his elderly clothmaking father Joseph as a central character; those stories appear in a collection that was translated and abridged to form Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Book of Codes. This author was killed by a Nazi for wandering into the "Aryan" section of his hometown of Drohobych, which provides the setting for a collection of stories describing the cinnamon shops of the title road. For 10 points, name this Polish author of Street of Crocodiles.
A story by this writer opens with the observation that "thrones wilt when they are not fed with blood" and concludes that Franz Joseph is a "powerful, but sad Demiurge."
Bruno Schulz