A review by chillcox15
Unwitting Street by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

3.0

Unwitting Street, the newest collection of short works by Khrzhizhanovsky translated by the good folks over at NYRB, is ultimately fairly disappointing and has me concerned that the Khrzhizhanovsky well is going dry much faster than I would have hoped. Even the better stories here, such as "Comrade Punt" feel a bit programmatically "Soviet satire"; as in, one could probably write that story now, having never lived in the USSR, if you have enough experience with the post-Gogol type of writerly perspective from whence it came. Autobiography of a Corpse is one of my favorite books, but nothing has matched it for me since.