Memories of the future
By: by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; translated and with an introduction by Joanne Turnbull.
Contributors: Turnbull, Joanne.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781590173190
Subjects: Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund, -- 1887-1950 -- Translations into English; Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories.
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. (Source: http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?usca_p=t&product_id=9152)
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Table of contents: title: Quadraturin; title: The bookmark; title: Someone else's theme; title: The branch line; title: Red snow; title: The thirteenth category of reason; title: Memories of the future.