About the Book

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.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 228 pages

Language: English

Publisher: New York Review of Books (Oct. 31st, 2009)

ISBN-10: 1590173198

ISBN-13: 9781590173190

Dimensions: 5.22 x 8.04 x 0.68 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.62 lbs

• Categories: Single Author Short Stories