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through the plot of land. The building is a place for one
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which it was created. In the presented work, this Transcendent
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living there is different, its statehood has changed as well as
the culture and language which is spoken there; also its space
and architecture has undergone changes. Finally, the attitude
of its residents towards Bruno Schulz and his creative activ-
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indifference. Schulz and his short stories are known only by
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short stories; the presented project consequently constitutes
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relations connecting the places of those two Drohobyches,
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‘The Street of Crocodiles’ and the idea of antiquarter ±
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author considers her project as an event which does not have
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character which was greatly changed after the war.
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shaped Market Square along with the town hall with full
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