Stravaging "Strange"

by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Book Overview

"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. This book presents three tales that encapsulate Krzhizhanovsky's gift for creating philosophical, satirical, and lyrical phantasmagorias.

"Stravaging 'Strange'" details the darkly comic adventures of an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231199465
• ISBN13: 9780231199469
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"