<Tr> <Th> Media type </Th> <Td> Print (Hardback & Paperback) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 200 pp (paperback edition) </Td> </Tr> <P> Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass is the English title of Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą, a novel by the Polish writer and painter Bruno Schulz, published in 1937 . </P> <P> The novel takes the form of a collection of dreamlike, poetic short stories that reflect on the death of the narrator's father, as well as life in the modest Jewish quarter of Drohobycz, the provincial town in the Austro - Hungarian Empire where Schulz was born . The hourglass of the title refers to the use of this object as a symbol in obituaries and death notices among the Poles . </P>

The sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass