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3 unusual facts about Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky


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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950), Russian and Soviet short-story writer

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Judging from his works, major influences on his style were Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and H. G. Wells.

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.



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