Seven stories / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; translated by Joanne Turnbull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund, 1887-1950.

Contributor:

Turnbull, Joanne.

Series:

Glas new Russian writing ; v. 39.

Glas new Russian writing : contemporary Russian literature in English translation ; v. 39

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund, 1887-1950--Translations into English.

Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund.

Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund, 1887-1950.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

208 pages : map ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Moscow] : Glas ; Chicago : distributed in North America by Northwestern University Press, [2006]

Summary:

Like a character in one of his stories, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950) has returned from obliviou. Prominent in Moscow literary circles in the 1920s and '30s, he was all but unpublished. The day he died, a critic mourned the passing of "a writer-visionary, an unsung genius."

Who was Krzhizhanovsky? An otherworldly man of enormous erudition, a brilliant voice incapable of accommodating the coarse commissars of Soviet culture: "I am interested, not in the arithmetic, but in the algebra of life."

Not until 1989 could Krzhizhanovsky's philosophical, satirical, lyrical phantasmagorias begin to be published. Critics today compare him to Beckett and Borges, Swift and Gogol. His fictions, including the seven remarkable stories in this collection, the first in English, have changed the face of 20th century Russian letters.

Contents:

Introduction

Map of the Arbat

Quadraturin

In the pupil

The runaway fingers

Autobiography of a corpse

The unbitten elbow

The bookmark

Yellow coal

Notes.

ISBN:

5717200730

OCLC:

64571831