Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920sbut considered too subversive even to show to a publisherthe 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.

Format: Paperback
Published: in 2009
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Pages: 232
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781590173190
ISBN 10: 1590173198
Edition: Main