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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Native name
Сигизмунд Кржижановский
Born(1887-02-11)11 February 1887
Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
DiedDecember 28, 1950(1950-12-28) (aged 63)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Sigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky (Russian: Сигизму́нд Домини́кович Кржижано́вский, IPA: [sʲɪɡʲɪzˈmunt dəmʲɪˈnʲikəvʲɪtɕ kʐɨʐɨˈnofskʲɪj],[1] Polish: Zygmunt Krzyżanowski; 11 February [O.S. 30 January] 1887 – 28 December 1950) was a Russian and Soviet writer, playwright, philosopher, and historian, who described himself as "known for being unknown".[2] He published only a few stories and essays in his lifetime; the majority of his writings were published posthumously.[3]

Life

Krzhizhanovsky was born in Kiev (now in Ukraine) to a Polish family on 11 February 1887.[4]

Krzhizhanovsky was active among Moscow's literati in the 1920s, while working for Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theater. Several of Krzhizhanovsky's stories became known through private readings and a few publications. His writing style might have been influenced by Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol,[5] E. T. A. Hoffmann, and H. G. Wells.[6]

In 1929 he penned a screenplay for Yakov Protazanov's acclaimed film The Feast of St Jorgen, yet his name did not appear in the credits. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1935 stop-motion animated feature film The New Gulliver, but, again, was left uncredited.[7] One of his last short stories, "Дымчатый бокал" ("The Smoke-Colored Goblet," 1939), tells the story of a goblet miraculously never running out of wine, which is sometimes interpreted as a wry allusion to the author's fondness for alcohol.

Krzhizhanovsky died in Moscow, but his burial place is not known.

In 1976, scholar Vadim Perelmuter discovered Krzhizhanovsky's archive and in 1989 published one of his short stories. As the five volumes of his collected works followed, Krzhizhanovsky emerged from obscurity as a remarkable Soviet writer, who polished his prose to the verge of poetry. His short parables, written with an abundance of poetic detail and wonderful fertility of invention – though occasionally bordering on the whimsical – are sometimes compared to the ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges. "Quadraturin" (1926), the best known of such phantasmagoric stories, is a Kafkaesque tale in which allegory meets existentialism.

Bibliography

Novellas

Short story collections

Plays

Essays and stories published in his lifetime

Translated stories and collections

References

  1. ^ The Russian Cyrillic translieration of the Polish digraph [rz] is [рж]. Hence, the Russian transliteration retains the Polish-style pronunciation of this diagraph , namely /ʐ/. See: "рж"&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover Польская грамматика, 1833, p. 2.
  2. ^ Tarves, Kirsten (2018). "Introduction". The lords of in-between: the trickster and liminal figure in the fiction of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, 1925-1928 (Master's thesis). University of Manitoba. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  3. ^ a b Leiderman, N. L. (2012). "The Intellectual Worlds of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky". The Slavic and East European Journal. 56 (4): 507–535. ISSN 0037-6752. JSTOR 24392613.
  4. ^ Adam Thirlwell, "The Master of the Crossed Out," The New York Review of Books, vol. LVIII, no. 11 (June 23, 2011), p. 57.
  5. ^ Serebrianik, Nina (2007-03-01). "Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida". Translation Review. 73 (1): 71–76. doi:10.1080/07374836.2007.10524123. ISSN 0737-4836. S2CID 170958651.
  6. ^ H.G. Wells and All Things Russian. Anthem Press. 2019. doi:10.2307/j.ctvkwnmn2. ISBN 978-1-78308-991-8. JSTOR j.ctvkwnmn2. S2CID 243094773.
  7. ^ Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. The Complete Works in 5 Volumes. Volume 1. ed. by Vadim Perelmuter. Saint Petersburg: Symposium, 2001, 688 pages. ISBN 5-89091-132-5
  8. ^ Ballard, Alisa (2012). "БЫТ Encounters БЫ: Krzhizhanovsky's Theater of Fiction". The Slavic and East European Journal. 56 (4): 553–576. ISSN 0037-6752. JSTOR 24392615.
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