LEADER 02492nam 22004453 450 001 9910154663603321 005 20210901203215.0 010 $a1-68137-029-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971954 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6047051 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6047051 035 $a(OCoLC)967623415 035 $a(BIP)058924495 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971954 100 $a20210901d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Return of Munchausen 210 1$aNew York :$cNew York Review Books,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (151 pages) 311 $a1-68137-028-X 327 $aEvery 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. 330 8 $aBaron 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 Mu?nchhausen, 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 a? 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. 610 $aSlavic Philology 676 $a891.73/42 676 $a891.7342 700 $aKrzhizhanovsky$b Sigizmund$01248791 701 $aTurnbull$b Joanne$01248792 701 $aFormozov$b Nikolai$01248793 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154663603321 996 $aThe Return of Munchausen$92894168 997 $aUNINA