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The Return of Munchausen

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Автор Krzhizhanovsky S.
Издательство Random House US
Год издания 2016
Переплет Мягкий
Страниц 160
Формат 128x205 мм
Язык Английский
ISBN 978-1-68137028-6
Артикул 1130838
Baron Munchausens 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 Munchausens 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 Truth in lies, 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, Lenins Russia, undercover. This reluctant secret agent has come out of retirement to engage with the real world.

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