Memories of the Future - (New York Review Books Classics) by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (Paperback)

Highlights

• 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.
• About the Author: SIGIZMUND KRZHIZHANOVSKY (1887-1950), the Ukrainian-born son of Catholic Poles, studied law and classical philology at Kiev University.
• 256 Pages
• Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)
• Series Name: New York Review Books Classics