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The Letter Killers Club

The Letter Killers Club

Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund
Turnbull, Joanne
Emerson, Caryl

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 159017450X
ISBN13: 9781590174500
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Dec 6 2011
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.07 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A New York Review Books Original

The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described conceivers who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler of stories if not an accomplished corruptor of conceptions?) The logic of the club is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday, members meet in a firelit room filled with empty black bookshelves where they strive to top one another by developing ever unlikelier, ever more perfect conceptions: a rehearsal of Hamlet hijacked by an actor who vanishes with the role; the double life of a merry medieval cleric derailed by a costume change; a machine-run world that imprisons men's minds while conscripting their bodies; a dead Roman scribe stranded this side of the River Acheron. But in this book set in an ominous Soviet Moscow of the 1920s, the members of the club are strangely mistrustful of one another, while all are under the spell of its despotic President, and there is no telling, in the end, just how lethal the purely conceptual--or, for that matter, letters--may be.

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