{"id":8411,"date":"2013-01-08T14:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=8411"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:14:34","slug":"episode-4-sigizmund-krzhizhanovskys-memories-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/01\/08\/episode-4-sigizmund-krzhizhanovskys-memories-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 4: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s Memories of the Future<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Memories-of-the-Future\"Though not officially state policy until 1932, socialist realism had been the unofficial type of art in Russia since the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks sought to put art into the service of the state. Art had to be easily understood and should convey a positive message about the Soviet Union and the struggle of the Proletariat. In Memories of the Future<\/em>\u00a0we find seven stories by Sigizmund\u00a0Krzhizhanovsky that, as the book’s blurb says, were considered too subversive even to show to a publisher. These seven stories not only examine the underbelly of Soviet Moscow but they also indulge in and praise the life of the imagination, the ability to tell a story that seemingly has no relationship with reality, all in an effort to convey that reality more fully.<\/p>\n

NYRB Classics published their edition of Memories of the Future<\/em>\u00a0in October of 2009, and it is the book we’ll be talking about in Episode 4 of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast.<\/p>\n

In Episode 5 we will be discussing Friedrich Reck’s Diary of a Man in Despair<\/em>, if the book gets to us in time. If not, we will be discussing Nancy Mitford’s The Sun King<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Show Notes (54:33)<\/p>\n