{"product_id":"unwitting-street-paperback","title":"Unwitting Street - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSigizmund Krzhizhanovsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoanne Turnbull\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEighteen strange, whimsical, and philosophical tales by the Russian master of the weird, all now in English for the very first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Comrade Punt does not wake up one Moscow morning--he has died--his pants dash off to work without him. The ambitious pants soon have their own office and secretary. So begins the first of eighteen superb examples of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's philosophical and phantasmagorical stories. Where the stories included in two earlier NYRB collections (\u003ci\u003eMemories of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e) are denser and darker, the creations in \u003ci\u003eUnwitting Street\u003c\/i\u003e are on the lighter side: an ancient goblet brimful of self-replenishing wine drives its owner into the drink; a hypnotist's attempt to turn a fly into an elephant backfires; a philosopher's free-floating thought struggles against being \"enlettered\" in type and entombed in a book; the soul of a politician turned chess master winds up in one of his pawns; an unsentimental parrot journeys from prewar Austria to Soviet Russia.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSigizmund Krzizhanovsky\u003c\/b\u003e (1887-1950) studied law and classical philology at Kiev University. In his philosophical and satirical stories with fantastical plots, he ignored official injunctions to portray the new Soviet state in a positive light, and three separate efforts to print different collections were quashed by the censors, a fourth by World War II. Two of his short story collections, \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, and his novels \u003ci\u003eThe Letter Killers Club\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Munchhausen\u003c\/i\u003e are also available as NYRB Classics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanne Turnbull\u003c\/b\u003e's translations from Russian in collaboration with Nikolai Formozov include Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's \u003ci\u003eThe Letter Killers Club\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the AATSEEL Prize for Best Literary Translation into English) and \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the PEN Translation Prize).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47250025251065,"sku":"9781681374888","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/a3pubDNBRDRONDJMUENkVFgwdVdrUT09.webp?v=1768653407","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/unwitting-street-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}