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Сигизмунд Кржижановский  |  Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Legal name:  Кржижановский, Сигизмунд

Transliterated: Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund

Birth place:  Kiev, Ukraine

Birth date:  11 February 1887

Death date: 28 December 1950

Language:  Russian

Bibliographic comments:

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Novels

The Return of Munchausen

1927

<  December 2016, 1st English language edition

New York Review of Books

ISBN 978-1-68137-028-6

Trade paperback, xii+139 pages

$14.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Joanne Turnbull.

  •  Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov.

Short fiction chapbooks

The Letter Killers Club

1926

Library edition:  February 2012, 1st English language edition

New York Review of Books

ISBN 978-1-59017-450-0

Trade paperback, xviii+123 pages

$14.95 / C$19.95 / £8.99

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Caryl Emerson.

  •  Untitled linked stories assembled as chapters of a novella.

  •  Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov.

Collections

Memories of the Future

1929

<  November 2009, 1st English language edition

New York Review of Books

ISBN 978-1-59017-319-0

Trade paperback, 228 pages

$14.95 / C$19.95 / £8.99

Notes:

  •  Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov.

Fiction: Quadraturin  //  The Bookmark  //  Someone Else's Theme  //  The Branch Line  //  Red Snow  //  The

Thirteenth Category of Reason  //  Memories of the Future

Autobiography of a Corpse

1927

<  December 2013, 1st English language edition

New York Review of Books

ISBN 978-1-59017-670-2

Trade paperback, xviii+230 pages

$15.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Adam Thirlwell.

  •  Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov.

Fiction: Autobiography of a Corpse  //  In the Pupil  //  Seams  //  The Collector of Cracks  //  The Land of Nots  //  The

Runaway Fingers  //  The Unbitten Elbow  //  Yellow Coal  //  Bridge Over the Styx  //  Thirty Pieces of Silver  //  

Postmark: Moscow

Unwitting Street

2020

<  August 2020, 1st edition

New York Review of Books

ISBN 978-1-68137-488-8

Trade paperback, 192 pages

$16.95

Notes:

  •  Stories written between 1920 and 1940.

  •  Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov.

Fiction: Comrade Punt  //  My Match with the King of Giants  //  The Slightly-Slightlies  //  The Played-Out Player  //  

The Life and Opinions of a Thought  //  The Flyelephant  //  "A Page of History"  //  God Is Dead  //  The Smoke-Colored

Goblet  //  The Gray Fedora  //  Paper Loses Patience  //  The Mute Keyboard  //  Death of an Elf  //  The Gamblers  //  

In Line  //  The Window  //  Journey of a Cage  //  Unwitting Street