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001 2011020476
003 DLC
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008 110524s2011 nyu b 000 1 eng
010 $a 2011020476
020 $a9781590174500 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hrus
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPG3476.K782$bK5813 2011
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084 $aFIC019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKrzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund,$d1887-1950.
240 10 $aKlub ubiĭt︠s︡ bukv.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe letter killers club /$cSigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; introduction by Caryl Emerson ; translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c2011.
300 $axviii, 123 p. cm.
490 0 $aNew York Review Books classics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 113-123).
520 $a"Writers are professional killers of conceptions. The logic of the Letter Killers Club, a secret society of "conceivers" who commit nothing to paper on principle, is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday they meet in a fire-lit room hung with blank black bookshelves to present their "pure and unsubstantiated" conceptions: a rehearsal of Hamlet hijacked by an actor who vanishes with the role; the double life of a medieval merry cleric derailed by a costume change; a machine-run world that imprisons men's minds while conscripting their bodies; a dead Roman scribe stranded this side of the River Acheron. The overarching scene of this short novel is set in Soviet Moscow, in the ominous 1920s. Known only by pseudonym, like Chesterton's anarchists in fin-de-sic̈le London, the Letter Killers are as mistrustful of one another as they are mesmerized by their despotic president. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is at his philosophical and fantastical best in this extended meditation on madness and silence, the word and the soul unbound"--$cProvided by publisher.
546 $aTranslated from the Russian.
600 10 $aKrzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund,$d1887-1950$vTranslations into English.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aTurnbull, Joanne.
856 42 $3Cover image$u978-1-59017-450-0.jpg