Author: Karen Link Rosenflanz
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: themes, krzhizhanovsky, studies, literature, sigizmund, motifs, works, interplay, word, thing, hunter
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 2005-06-13
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0820461512
ISBN-13: 9780820461519
*PLEASE NOTE ALL Z’S IN KRIZIZANOVSKIJ SHOULD HAVE LITTLE V’S OVER THEM* The phantasmagoric short stories and satirical novellas of the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krizizanovskij (1887-1950) are a unique amalgam of verbal pyrotechnics, scientific erudition, and philosophical contemplation. This book examines how the raw materials of Russian byt are transformed through Krizizanovskij’s ironic wit and rich imagination. Affinities with the theories of his Russian Formalist and Futurist contemporaries are revealed in Krizizanovskij’s use of literary devices to generate the
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