Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is one of a number of Soviet era Russian (in fact Ukrainian) authors unable either to settle into the post-revolutionary lifestyle or to have his fiction published. In fact he died, in 1950, forty years before the stories in this collection were published and these were the first to be made available to the public. It is not, of course, very surprising in retrospect to consider that the individualist Krzhizhanovsky, unable to blend in to society as a whole, would constantly find his work rejected by the official censors and the editors who acted as their gatekeepers.
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