| Memories of the Future Contributor(s): Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund (Author), Turnbull, Joanne (Translator), Turnbull, Joanne (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590173198 ISBN-13: 9781590173190 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009009752 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.22" W x 8.04" (0.62 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |