The Letter Killers Club (Paperback, Main)

A New York Review Books Original
Writers are professional killers of conceptions. The logic of the Letter Killers Club, a secret society of "conceivers" who commit nothing to paper on principle, is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday they meet in a fire-lit room hung with blank black bookshelves to present their "pure and unsubstantiated" conceptions: a rehearsal of Hamlet hijacked by an actor who vanishes with the role; the double life of a medieval merry cleric derailed by a costume change; a machine-run world that imprisons men's minds while conscripting their bodies; a dead Roman scribe stranded this side of the River Acheron. The overarching scene of this short novel is set in Soviet Moscow, in the ominous 1920s. Known only by pseudonym, like Chesterton's anarchists in fin-de-siecle London, the Letter Killers are as mistrustful of one another as they are mesmerized by their despotic president. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is at his philosophical and fantastical best in this extended meditation on madness and silence, the word and the soul unbound.

General

Imprint:	Nyrb Classics
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	December 2011
Authors:	Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Dimensions:	204 x 126 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	124
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-450-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	1-59017-450-X
Barcode:	9781590174500

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