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The return of Munchausen
Record details
- ISBN: 9781681370286 (paperback : alkaline paper) :
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Physical Description:
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xii, 140 pages ; 21 cm. - Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2016]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Every baron has his flights of fancy -- Smoke that roars -- Kant's coeval -- In partes infidelium -- The devil in a droshky -- The theory of improbability -- The hermit of Bodenwerder -- The truth that dodged the man. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Russian. |
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| Genre: | Russian fiction. Spy fiction. Satirical literature. Romans à clef. Novellas. |
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Baron Munchausenâs hold on the European imagination dates back to the late eighteenth century when he first pulled himself (and his horse) out of a swamp by his own upturned pigtail. Inspired by the extravagant yarns of a straight-faced former cavalry officer, Hieronymus von Münchhausen, the best-selling legend quickly eclipsed the real-life baron who helped the Russians fight the Turks. Galloping across continents and centuries, the mythical Munchausenâs Travels went through hundreds of editions of increasing length and luxuriance.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the Russian modernist master of the unsettling and the uncanny, also took certain liberties with the mythical baron. In this phantasmagoric roman à clef set in 1920s Berlin, London, and Moscow, Munchausen dauntlessly upholds his old motto âTruth in lies,â while remaining a fierce champion of his own imagination. At the same time, the two-hundred-year-old baron and self-taught philosopher has agreed to return to Russia, Leninâs Russia, undercover. This reluctant secret agent has come out of retirement to engage with the real world.
