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  Memories of the Future (New York Review Books Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Introduction by Joanne Turnbull

  

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  Short Description for Memories of the FutureWritten 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...
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  • Publisher: New York Review of Books Classics
  • Published: 26 November 2009
  • Format: Paperback 232 pages
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  • Categories: Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9781590173190 ISBN 10: 1590173198
  • Sales rank: 65,304

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Full description for Memories of the Future

• 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.