The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
Episode 3: “Quadraturin,” by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s story “Quadraturin,” translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull, is presented here in its entirety with permission from NYRB Classics. You can find this and many more of his stories in their editions. For more information about Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, please listen to Episode 2. The Unknown Man: The Silent Screamings of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.
More shows are in the works, most dedicated to a particular time in an author’s career. It should be fun. I hope you’ll check it out!
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Sources and other items of interest:
- Episode 2. The Unknown Man: The Silent Screamings of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
- The Letter Killers Club, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, with an introduction by Caryl Emerson
- The Return of Munchausen, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, with an introduction by Joanne Turnbull
- Memories of the Future, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, with an introduction by Joanne Turnbull
- Autobiography of a Corpse, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, with an introduction by Adam Thirlwell
This was the first story by Krzhizhanovsky I read and I loved it. Did you know it has been adapted to film? It’s 18 minutes long and, from what I can tell the film had its world premiere at the Tampere Film Festival in Finland in March 2018. It will probably be hard to find it, but here is the film’s official website. They even have a trailer there: https://www.quadraturin.com/