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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
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Memories of the Future |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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256 |
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2009-10-06 |
| ISBN: |
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1590173198 |
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NYRB Classics |
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1.94 pounds |
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5.0 x 0.0 x 7.91 inches |
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Product Description
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling “everything you need for suicide”; an absentminded passenger boards the wrong train, winding up in a place where night is day, nightmares are the reality, and the backs of all facts have been broken; a man out looking for work comes across a line for logic but doesn’t join it as there’s no guarantee the logic will last; a sociable corpse misses his own funeral; an inventor gets a glimpse of the far-from-radiant communist future.
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