ARGONAUT BOOKS

Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s - but deemed too subversive even to show to a publisher - the seven tales presented here attest to Krzhizhanovsky's boundless imagination, black humor and breathtaking irony. Reviews "For anyone enthralled by the satirical avant-garde that briefly shone on the fringes of Soviet culture in the 1920s, here's a revelation.  Krzhizhanovsky somehow scraped a living in post-revolution Moscow as he wrote stories infused by a disturbing surrealism.  Joanne Turnbull's fine translations of seven won the Rossica Prize, and this edition should gain ...Read More