| Author |
Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund, 1887-1950.
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Кржижановский, Сигизмунд, 1887-1950. |
| Publication |
New York : New York Review Books, [2012]
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| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Call # |
eBOOK |
| Series |
New York Review Books classics
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New York Review Books classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"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 hijacked 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-sïcle 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 and silence, the word and the soul unbound"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Authors -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- 1917-1970 -- Fiction.
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Russian fiction -- Translations into English.
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| Genre |
Electronic books. |
| Addl. Author |
Turnbull, Joanne.
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OverDrive, Inc.
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| Addl. Title |
Klub ubiĭt︠s︡ bukv. English
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Клуб убийц букв. English
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| Add Tp Title |
Club des tueurs de lettres |
| ISBN |
9781590175231 (electronic bk.) |
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1590175239 (electronic bk.) |
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