A very interesting consideration and introduction to the work of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky over at Ellis Sharp's* The Sharp Side has fuelled my imagination.Just the idea of:
“a short-story writer who described himself as being 'known only for being unknown' and the bulk of whose writings was published posthumously" [Wikipaedia],
or:
"A recurring theme in these stories is anxiety. Personal identity is threatened by sudden transformation. Individuals and entire societies undergo abrupt, dizzying total change. But that anxiety extends to storytelling itself. At the end of ‘In the Pupil’ the narrator, reunited with his own reflection, decides he has ‘enough material’ to tell the story. But how best to tell it? The story ends with the narrator indecisively fretting about the correct formula and about his relationship with an indifferent reader. All that has gone before is balanced on this precarious, incomplete climax, which terminates with a question mark" [The Sharp Side]
. . . is sure to attract my attention.
*Incidentally I shall be reviewing Ellis Sharp's latest novel very soon for 3AM Magazine.
