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In this book, the NYRB brings together 11 of Krzhizhanovsky’s short stories written in 1922-39. There’s a good heaping of metaphysical questions he’s exploring here, and sometimes the overly ponderous way he works through them was a chore to get through. But for the most part, the stories—fantastical with sharp insight and witty wordplay—just charmed the socks off me. My favorites included the ones about a society that’s relegated to using people’s spite as its energy source; a man who devotes h
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