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Livres anciens et modernes

Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund

The Return of Munchausen

NYrb 2015,

18,00 €

Pali s.r.l. Libreria

(Roma, Italie)

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Détails

Auteur
Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund
Éditeurs
NYrb 2015
Thème
Fantascienza Science Fiction
Description
S
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
Comme neuf
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

8vo,m br. ed. Baron Munchausenís hold on the European imagination dates back to the late eighteenth century when he first pulled himself (and his horse) out of a swamp by his own upturned pigtail. Inspired by the extravagant yarns of a straight-faced former cavalry officer, Hieronymus von M¸nchhausen, the best-selling legend quickly eclipsed the real-life baron who helped the Russians fight the Turks. Galloping across continents and centuries, the mythical Munchausenís Travels went through hundreds of editions of increasing length and luxuriance. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the Russian modernist master of the unsettling and the uncanny, also took certain liberties with the mythical baron. In this phantasmagoric roman ‡ clef set in 1920s Berlin, London, and Moscow, Munchausen dauntlessly upholds his old motto ìTruth in lies,î while remaining a fierce champion of his own imagination. At the same time, the two-hundred-year-old baron and self-taught philosopher has agreed to return to Russia, Leninís Russia, undercover. This reluctant secret agent has come out of retirement to engage with the real world.
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