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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 10/06/2009
ISBN: 9781590173190
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.22w x 0.68d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/18/2009 pg. 37
New York Times Book Review 10/25/2009 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 11/01/2009 pg. 18
New York Review of Books 06/23/2011 pg. 57