Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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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 ...

• Dec-2011
• / Literary
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The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described “conceivers” who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler of stories if not an accomplished corru...

• Dec-2013
• / Literary
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An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the  2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia PrizeThe stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narrative...

• Dec-2016
• / Psychological Suspense
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Baron Munchausen’s hold on the European imagination dates back to the late eighteenth century when he first pulled himself (and his horse) out of a swamp by his own upturned pigtail. Inspired by the extravagant yarns of a straight-faced former c...

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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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 ambiti...

• Mar-2023
• / Literary
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“I’m not on good terms with the present day,” Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky once mused, “but posterity loves me.” Virtually unknown during his lifetime and unpublishable under Stalin, he now draws comparisons to Beckett, Borges, Gogol, and Swift...