Bibliograph

Memories of the future, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; translated by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov

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Label

Memories of the future, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; translated by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Memories of the future

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

264044003

Responsibility statement

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; translated by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov

Summary

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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