Memories of the Future (New York Review Books Classics)
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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
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Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Release date: 6 October 2009
ISBN-10 : 1590173198 | ISBN-13: 9781590173190
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Release date: 6 October 2009
ISBN-10 : 1590173198 | ISBN-13: 9781590173190