Krzhizhanovsky's Return of Munchausen: Translation and Commentary - Paperback

by Michael Comenetz (Commentaries by), Michael Comenetz (Translator)

This book provides a new translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's novel Тhe Return of Munchausen, with an extensive commentary that is accessible to any reader. In the novel the famous old baron, a virtuoso of imaginative creation who has returned to the world, tells of his visit to a fantastic early Soviet Union, and by his inspiring influence raises a poet he befriends to new poetic life. Lively and gripping, engaged with questions of existence and reality, truth and fiction, the tale is extraordinary for depth, intricacy, and manifold connections to works of literature, philosophy, religion, and science. It is illuminated in detail by the commentary, which exhibits these connections with reference to a great variety of writings, both ancient and modern.

Author Biography

Michael Comenetz is on the faculty of St. John's College in Annapolis, where he has taught mathematics, philosophy, and literature, among other things. He is the author of Calculus: The Elements, and a co-author of Valéry's Graveyard: "Le Cimetière marin" Translated, Described, and Peopled, and has published an edition of Homer's Iliad 22.