Quotes by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

About Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky:

Sigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky was a Russian and Soviet short-story writer who described himself as being "known for being unknown"; the bulk of his writings were published posthumously.
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In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

But it's fair to say that the war's [WWI] dialectic forced those who were more or less alive to go to their death, and gave those who were more or less dead the right to live. And if the war managed only to separate the living from the dead, then the...

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Hiding my half existence behind the opaque walls of my skull, concealing it like a shameful disease, I did not consider the simple fact that the same thing could be occurring under other skullcaps, in other locked rooms.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

People are ignorant of what any street clock knows. Why? Because the crack that cleaves existence also swallows their existence-reflecting consciousnesses. Thrown back into existence, the poor souls don't suspect that a moment ago they didn't exist -...

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

...as I was sifting through a heap of old and new "identity cards," I noticed that something was missing: my identity.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Quantin crept closer to the knoll. A pungent smell passed through his nostrils up into his brain. Attracted by the poppies' scarlet smears, he was about to take another step when he felt a hand on his elbow. A man in a poppy-red jacket, his pupils di...

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Author Bio

  • NameSigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
  • DescriptionRussian writer
  • BornJanuary 30, 1887
  • DiedDecember 28, 1950
  • CountryRussia; Poland
  • ProfessionAuthor