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.
| ISBN: | 9781590173190 |
| Publication date: | 26th November 2009 |
| Author: | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii, Joanne Turnbull |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 228 pages |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
| Genres: |
Shorter Reads Narrative theme: Politics General Fiction |