Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920sbut considered too subversive even to show to a publisherthe seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskys boundless imagination black humor and breathtaking irony a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room the Eiffel Tower runs amok a kind soul dreams of selling everything you need for suicide an absentminded passenger boards the wrong train winding up in a place where night is day nightmares are the reality and the