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Memories of the Future
Memories of the Future | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovski?, Joanne Turnbull
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Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920sbut considered too subversive even to show to a publisherthe seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskys boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling everything you need for suicide; an absentminded passenger boards the wrong train, winding up in a place where night is day, nightmares are the reality, and the backs of all facts have been broken; a man out looking for work comes across a line for logic but doesnt join it as theres no guarantee the logic will last; a sociable corpse misses his own funeral; an inventor gets a glimpse of the far-from-radiant communist future.
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Dyslexicon13
Memories of the Future | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovski?, Joanne Turnbull
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Of the seven short stories most were really awesome but a couple left a bit to be desired. Overall I recommend this book to any science fiction fans, philosophy fans, or fans of House of Leaves

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Moray_Reads
Memories of the Future | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovski?, Joanne Turnbull
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I've loved literature written and/or set in the Soviet era. Here are a few from my shelves with my favourite Master and Margarita covers taking centre stage. The glaring omission here is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn but my copies of his books are all digital. #backintheussr #rockinmay

saresmoore Me too, me too! Of course, I haven't read nearly enough of these. 7y
batsy That's an amazing collection 😍 7y
Cinfhen Oh wow! You rocked this challenge 🎵🎸😎 7y
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Moray_Reads @Cinfhen it's definitely right up my street! The hardest part was narrowing it down 7y
andrew61 They look great, i will search some of them out. 7y
Moray_Reads @andrew61 if you can't read any of the titles just let me know! 7y
andrew61 Thanks, moray. 7y
tricours How's A school for fools? I've got that one on my Kindle. 7y
tricours And would you recommend Odessa Stories? 7y
Moray_Reads @tricours I enjoyed it, is extremely Russian with that sort of disjointed stream of consciousness narrative that they love. The main set of stories in part one of Odessa Stories wore pretty thin with me but I liked the second part much more 7y
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Moray_Reads
Memories of the Future | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovski?, Joanne Turnbull
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This was fun! I'm looking forward to everyone else's
Before the feast
Summer will show
Memories of the future
After me comes the flood
Fallen grace
A void
The famished road
#spinepoetry #MarchIntoReading

LeahBergen Awesome! 👏🏻 7y
saresmoore I love it! 7y
Kalalalatja 👌👌lovely! 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk Gotta say I've read a ton of these today, but I think this one is my favorite. 7y
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