Memories of the Future
€22.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781590173190 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky |
| Publisher | New York Review Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.266 |
| Publishing Date | 06/10/2009 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €21.60 |
| Tax | €1.30 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €22.90 |
| Availability | 6 units in external warehouse |
Product 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.