MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
Oct 29th, 2009 |
MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
By Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Translated by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov
In the 1920s, a disaffected Soviet encyclopedia editor named Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - a man haunted by Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” and by Communist realities - began writing a series of philosophical, allegorical, fantastical short stories. In 1976, the scholar Vadim Perelmuter discovered the [...]
