Description: The first English translation of Krzhizhanovsky's modernist essays on theater and of his play That Third Guy, a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror. The plot builds on Alexander Pushkin's poem "Cleopatra," while parodying the themes of Eros and empire in the Cleopatra tales of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw.
Brief description:
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950) was a Russian writer of Polish heritage who lived in Moscow. His short stories, largely unacceptable to Soviet censorship, began to appear in 1989, and many are now available in English.
Review Quotes: "This charming volume makes a notable contribution to the growing English-language literature by and about Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, one of the rediscovered gems of twentieth-century Russian literature." --Thomas Seifrid, author of The Word Made Self