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Seven Stories
Volume 39

Seven Stories
Volume 39
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Author(s): Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Language(s): English
ISBN: 5-7172-0073-0
ISBN 13: n/a
Published by Glas New Russian Writing
Published in 2006
Pages: 208
Download size: 0.69 MB
Price: € 14.00
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Summary: 
Like a character in one of his stories, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950) has returned from oblivion. A prominent figure in literary circles first in Kiev then in Moscow in the 1920s and '30s, he was all but unpublished and, as he put it, "known for being unknown". The author of five short novels, more than a hundred stories, a dozen plays, screenplays and librettos, and dozens of essays, he worked in almost total obscurity. Who was Krzhizhanovsky? No one knew. But Shengeli was known to have been very caustic towards his contemporaries. And the phrase "an unsung genius" came from a poem by Severyanin in praise of Leskov, another great writer neglected during his lifetime. The ensuing search for Krzhizhanovsky brought to light an otherworldly man of enormous erudition (a student of astronomy, mathematics, literature, philosophy, languages — he knew ten) who was constitutionally incapable of accommodating the coarse commissars of Soviet culture. His terse, metaphorical, clearly modernist prose was marked by hyperbole, irony, paradox and phantasms. "A fantastical plot is my method," he wrote. "First you borrow from reality, you ask reality for permission to use your imagination, to deviate from actual fact; later you repay your debt to your creditor with nature, with a profoundly realistic investigation of the facts and an exact logic of conclusions."
   
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