Memories of The Future

Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s 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 doesn’t join it as there’s 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.