Books by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
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review 1: I so, so badly wanted to like this book after reading an article a few years back about the rediscovery of Krzhizhanovsky's work. Heralded as a great surrealist, Kafkaean master in that piece and elsewhere, I was taken aback to find K.'s short stories pretty mundane and, well, no...
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review 1: The stories here range from good to excellent. If you like Kafka, Beckett, Calvino or Borges, you will appreciate this book, though Krzhizhanovsky cannot with precision be compared directly to any of those writers. If you're familiar with the history of Western philosophy, even b...
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review 1: I have to admit I was very excited to pick this book up and read it. I went into it knowing I may not enjoy the writing style. I both did and didn't. The book is a compilation of seven short stories. I thoroughly enjoyed three of the seven. The other four were, and you can quote...
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review 1: Whoa, this was really wonderful. It's an extremely slim (112 pages) volume of linked stories, all told by members of a secret club who are trying to escape physical writing, either written or read, for various reasons. Each week, one member shares a story, and the book mostly hin...