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Soviet Russia , surreal , witty , working class. The stranger’s hand popped out of the briefcase and proffered Sutulin a narrow dark tube, not unlike a tube of paint, with a tightly screwed cap and a leaden.
Nov 11, 2009 · The subject of the story “Quadraturin” is a Soviet city dweller, Sutulin, who lives in an apartment so tiny that when he hears a knock on his door one evening, he doesn’t need to get out...
May 12, 2018 · Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s story “Quadraturin,” translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull, is presented here in its entirety with permission from NYRB Classics.
Quadraturin is dark fantasy short adapted from S. Krzhizhanovsky's short story of the same name. Set in Soviet Russia in the 1920s, it tells the story of Sutulin, a law-abiding office clerk living in a tiny room of a communal apartment, who accepts a stranger's offer to try a sample of Quadraturin - a liquid that expands interior space.
Nov 15, 2009 · The opening story, “Quadraturin,” is its own hell-born, absurdist dream -- a dream come to life in an 86-foot-square room that grows, maw-like, with the application of a magic,...
Quadraturin (1926), the best known of such phantasmagoric stories, is a Kafkaesque novella in which allegory meets existentialism. Quadraturin is available in English translation in Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Penguin Classics, 2005. Show more.
"Quadraturin" (1926), the best known of such phantasmagoric stories, is a Kafkaesque tale in which allegory meets existentialism.
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