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Download Ñ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free ¼ Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ¼ 2 Download Review Клуб убийц букв Biography Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 1887–1950 studied law and classical philology at Kiev University His philosophical and satirical stories with fantastical plots ignored official injunctions to portray the new Soviet state in a positive light and three separate efforts to print different collections were uashed by the censors a fourth by World War II Not until 1989 could these surreal fictions begin to be published His collection of stories Memories of the Future is available from NYRB Classics   Caryl Emerson is A Watson Armour III Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University   Joanne Turnbull has tr. Stop Yes You Stop Don t Read Any Further No I m serious Like SERIOUS STOP I m not going to repeat STOP RIGHT HEREHa you didn t listen did you Well then be prepared to sever ties with only ever thing that made your enriching circle of reading comprehending reflecting retrieving and disseminating complete and visible to the world Words Writers in essence are professional word tamers if the words walking down the lines were living creatures they would surely fear and hate the pen s nib as tamed animals do the raised whip You are at the entry gate of The Letter Killers Club Co Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Perception Lane PO Floating Ideation Wanderers District Now shed your pompous lexis at the phantasm rug and remove your premium leather vocabulary shoes by its side Ease the creases on your expressive forehead lest they still throb of your age ol garrulously decorative tremors Done Good With this sterilization of words we are ualified now to enter his club Let s step inThis room we have stepped into is a white inflated lattice of skeletal black bookshelves that have been robbed off their spines But did you think they are empty Not uite They are teeming with life like a new born what they hold within their bosoms are a thousand thoughts that run amok the most creative mountains in the deepest allegorical whims but alas not visible and thus not comprehensible to the regular eyeHere we meet 7 members aptly known as conceivers who shun everything from the word s womb since A thought or conception in its uest for creative life must separate itself from the written word which traps it like a zoological specimen on the printed page They meet every Saturday and on the behest of Zez their president Rar Tyd Das Fev Hig and Mov take turn to present a story every week which upon completion serves as the fertile ground for further introspection They prod the story with their incisive eye feel its spine in their nimble minds toss it in diverse scenarios and having arrived at its prime theme place it in the correct shelf on the neatly stacked conception bookshelvesBut categorizing ideas however revolutionary can come under severe contradictions since anything without definitive structure tantamounts to splintered interpretations and sensing this tide taking rather alarming proportions in the club Zez brings an outsider our narrator one fine Saturday and directs him to simply be a part of the proceedings for the next few weeks albeit keeping his faculties at full throttle So for the next four Saturdays we embark on a somewhat perplexing but undeniably thrilling journey While in Rar s Actus Morbi we experience the uixotic dilemma of a theatrical actor when the ROLE refuses to accept him as his master Tyd invokes a prickly tingling sensation when a young happy bride in The Feast of the Ass is abruptly revealed the truth of ass in a dark dense forest by a unnervingly calm priest Having received lukewarm response to his idea when Tyd tries to reform his story around the priest as a rather funny goliard who doubles up as jester in The Goliard s Sack Das savagely embosses his own with the very peculiar Exes a debatable idea of human brain being infected by artificially generated vibrophags to isolate the nervous consciousness from the musculature system especially in the madmen Fev tries to rein in the eccentricity by his own delineating thought Tale of Three Mouths where three friends transcend villages and towns to get the inscrutable answer to the purpose of a mouth view spoilerThe stories are a series of veiled satire on the political and societal fabric of the Russia of 1920s Krzhizhanovsky a vocal detractor of the Russian tombs was thus suppressed in print and almost all his works found widespread publication long after his death hide spoiler

Download Ñ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free ¼ Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ¼ 2 Download Review Клуб убийц букв Anslated a number of books from Russian including Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s Memories of the Future which was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award available as a NYRB Classic Editorial Reviews The Letter Killers Club From the Publisher 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 hijac. Then I told them about experiments in cultivating flowers without light the result curiously is always an exceedingly tall branching plant but put that gloom grown specimen next to ordinary plants used to night and day and you will find it fragile withered and paleI ve read this an early mid example of K s work written when he was new to Moscow and hadn t yet sampled the failure that was to be his experience of publishing twice now and find it to be immune to the above description maybe gloom grown but unlike the later work I ve read NYRB s Memories of the Future not tall fragile whithered or pale Branching yes five stories which could stand independently fused to the central conceit of the Letter Killers Club a Saturday evening ritual conducted by authors dedicated to non publication in which they narrate discuss improvise and re contort their conceptions Ingenious meticulous solidly crafted the branches of this bansai balance beautifully yet the result is some hybrid which baffles as it inspires The workmanship now that is inspired And the stories taken alone they mostly are too But what madness or genius fused them together and why I m made to view them as one yet they want to fracture to part The result a kind of two tiered hologram it s one it s many BAM K s super finely wrought miniature explodes the tensile strength of its joins is what explodes it Because make no mistake this is seamless Yet nothing can hold a story like the central one scientists sever brains from bodies en masse and use the resultant slave labour to create an anti human utopia no frame can help but fade to grey in its shadow Borges Poe Walser K slightly arch as he may be is not out of place in their company But I suspect after The Letter Killer s Club he cultivated increasingly in darkness Memories while strong in parts has that over reach of the too branching specimen But whatever he writes the flavour is so exotic even when subtle it s irresistable Pays de la Loire - Anjou, Maine, Vendée, Pays nantais meet in a fire lit room hung with blank black bookshelves to present their “pure and unsubstantiated” conceptions a rehearsal of Hamlet hijac. 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Download Ñ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free ¼ Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ¼ 2 Download Review Клуб убийц букв Ked 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 siècle 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. For me reading this novel was like trying to set wet timber alight All the materials I needed were present and there were a few sparks but I just couldn t get a flame to take hold The framework of the book reminded me of If on a Winter s Night a Traveler a series of unconnected or very slightly connectedstories linked by a seuential narrative but it lacked all of the fun and much of the invention of that wonderful book I think I understood some of the author s intentions the slipperiness of identity the mutability and malleability of our projected selves and the sense we have of our overall physical selves etc but I found few of the stories sustained my interest and one in particular about humans being transformed into automatons was just far too familiar although it may have been very original in 1926 The tale that links each story is also less than compellingThere were a couple of parts of the book that intrigued me the diversion around the figure of Notker the Stammerer was of interest because he is an important figure in early polyphonic chant something I like very much and the Tale of Three Mouths was enjoyable although the riddle that is central to the story is not resolved with the wit that might be expected from such a medieval yarn It is uite possible that I missed something about the nature of this book and I have wavered between three and two stars but when I see that three means liked it and two means it was okay I have to admit that the latter is closer to how I felt