Unwitting Street

Unwitting Street
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
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Paperback
h203 x 127mm - 184pg
18 Aug 2020 US
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9781681374888
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Eighteen strange, whimsical, and philosophical tales by the Russian master of the weird, all now in English for the very first time. When Comrade Punt does not wake up one Moscow morning--he has died--his pants dash off to work without him. The ambitious pants soon have their own office and secretary. So begins the first of eighteen superb examples of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky' s philosophical and phantasmagorical stories. Where the stories included in two earlier NYRB collections (Memories of the Future and Autobiography of a Corpse) are denser and darker, the creations in Unwitting Street are on the lighter side: an ancient goblet brimful of self-replenishing wine drives its owner into the drink; a hypnotist' s attempt to turn a fly into an elephant backfires; a philosopher' s free-floating thought struggles against being "enlettered" in type and entombed in a book; the soul of a politician turned chess master winds up in one of his pawns; an unsentimental parrot journeys from prewar Austria to Soviet Russia.
Sigizmund Krzizhanovsky (1887-1950) studied law and classical philology at Kiev University. In his philosophical and satirical stories with fantastical plots, he ignored official injunctions to portray the new Soviet state in a positive light, and three separate efforts to print different collections were quashed by the censors, a fourth by World War II. His two story collections, Autobiography of a Corpse and Memories of the Future, and his novels The Letter Killers Club and The Return of Munchhausen are available as NYRB Classics. Joanne Turnbull' s translations from Russian include Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky' s The Letter Killers Club, Autobiography of a Corpse, Memories of the Future, and The Return of Munchausen, all published by NYRB Classics. She lives in Moscow.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781681374888
Published: 18 Aug 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: The New York Review of Books Inc
Publisher: The New York Review of Books Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 184

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