
Memories Of The Future
by Sigizmund
Title:
Memories Of The Future
Author:
Sigizmund
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
New York Review of Books - IWUK
ISBN-13:
9781590173190
EAN:
9781590173190
Classifications:
Special Features
Weight (g):
386
Dimensions (mm):
203 x 129 x 18
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
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.










