02492nam 22004453 450 991015466360332120210901203215.01-68137-029-8(CKB)3710000000971954(MiAaPQ)EBC6047051(Au-PeEL)EBL6047051(OCoLC)967623415(BIP)058924495(EXLCZ)99371000000097195420210901d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Return of MunchausenNew York :New York Review Books,2016.©2017.1 online resource (151 pages)1-68137-028-X 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 ducked the man.Baron Munchausen's 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 Munchausen's 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 "Truth in lies," 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, Lenin's Russia, undercover. This reluctant secret agent has come out of retirement to engage with the real world.Slavic Philology891.73/42891.7342Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund1248791Turnbull Joanne1248792Formozov Nikolai1248793MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154663603321The Return of Munchausen2894168UNINA