Just finished Krzhyzhanovski's Memories of the Future. Quite an interesting read. He was one of those early Soviet authors that dabbled with surrealism and straddled the line between the more experimental late-empire writers and socialist realism which while often rising to considerable heights, broke distinctly with the literary direction of Europe as a whole and took the Soviet literature in an unexplored direction. I will have to follow up with more of his works, which are surprising hard to come by in Russian. Curiously, due to some early rejections from publishers, and concerns over censorship, he was never published during his life, writing but leaving it in manuscript. He was rediscovered in the '70s by Perelmuter, who subsequently got his work published to some acclaim.
