Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
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Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 272Year: 1989The protagonist writes his autobiography after his physical death. In this unique philosophical state, the “corpse” observes life from the outside — outside the body, outside passions and desires. This chilling process of “writing one’s own death” becomes a cold report on the absurdity of his former existence and the universe’s ultimate indifference to his […]
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Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 256Year: 1989The hero discovers he is not suffering from forgetfulness, but from a temporal paradox: he cannot forget events that… have not yet happened. He experiences the future as if it were an accomplished past. This temporal disorder renders him incapable of living in the present or changing the pre-written future he already “remembers,” condemning him […]
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The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 176Year: 1990A writer becomes obsessed with the “contamination” of language by useless letters and meanings, leading him to found a secret society of linguistic purifiers. The club’s goal is the radical “murder” of superfluous characters and ideas for the sake of purifying thought. However, this obsession leads to madness and a dangerous simplification of thought itself. […]
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The Return of Munchausen by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 168Year: 1990The aging and immortal Baron Munchausen returns to a world that has mechanized imagination and rationalized fantasy. He struggles to prove to the new society that his incredible, impossible memories are real. The Baron’s eternal life turns into a tragic quest for meaning and belief in the miraculous, because in a world with no room […]
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Unwitting Street by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 184Year: 1989A Moscow musician suddenly realizes that his art, his scores, and notes, are literally written into the fabric of the city. Streets, houses, and passersby begin to sound, obeying a hidden but real musical code. He tries to escape this hyper-reality but finds himself trapped within his own melody, trying to decipher the enigma of […]
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