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Countries That Don't Exist - Selected Nonfiction (Paperback)
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Countries That Don't Exist - Selected Nonfiction (Paperback)
Series: Russian Library
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Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now
hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels,
unpublishable under Stalinism but rediscovered long after his
death, have drawn comparisons to the works of Jorge Luis Borges for
their distinctive blend of metafictional play and philosophical
thought experiment. Like Borges, Krzhizhanovsky also wrote
dazzlingly unconventional essayistic pieces as a slippery extension
of his fictional project. Countries That Don't Exist showcases a
selection of Krzhizhanovsky's exceptional nonfiction, which spans a
dizzying range of genres and voices. Playful fantasies dwelling in
the borderlands between essay and fable, metaphysical conversations
and probing literary criticism, philosophical essays and wartime
memoirs-in all these modes Krzhizhanovsky's writing bristles with
idiosyncratic erudition and a starkly original vision of literary
creation. Krzhizhanovsky comes across as a strange voice from
another past, at once utterly novel yet unmistakably belonging to
the high modernist 1920s and 1930s. Taken together, these works
present to the English-speaking world a fresh aspect of a newly
canonized author. Countries That Don't Exist also features critical
commentary that places these texts in the context of
Krzhizhanovsky's other writings and illuminates their relationship
to the philosophical and aesthetic ferment of Russian and European
modernism.
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