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Radosław Nowakowski Non-description of Moscow Alexy Remizov The Clock ISBN: 978-83-61946-60-1 year: 1993 (the first version
printed on dot matrix printer - A5, hardbound)
2003 (the second version printed on ink jet printer
- 21x21cm, hardbound) 2010 (the third version)
size:
26cm x 21cmcovers: softbound (Japanese binding) + cardboard slipcase paper: 90g, white, two kinds print: laser or inkjet printer language: Polish open edition 21 copies of the first and the second versions have been made so far copies of the third version are dated so their number is not known Almost one hundred
and twenty years ago Aleksy Remizov wrote a short
novel titled The Clock. It tells a story,
among others, of Kostia Klochkov. Kostia had a crooked
nose and the whole town laughed at him. One day he
decided to take revenge and damaged the clock on a
cerkov tower. He thought he would thus become the
master of time, while those who used to laugh at him
would be his subjects. Indeed, Kostia thought
different things .....
Ninety years after The
Clock had been written I translated this book.
And it just happened that when I was working on it I
went to Moscow for a few days. I was to play a concert
there and I was to look for one word that seemed very
important for the book and I couldn’t find in any
dictionary. Nondescritpion of Moscow tells
what was going on there and then. Really strange
things were going on there and then. Mainly with and
due to time.
So, Nondescription
of Moscow comments The Clock while The
Clock comments Nondescription of Moscow.
That is why they are together. Looking into each
other’s eyes.
Ten years after I had come back from
Moscow I decided to make this book a square. And to
get all paragraphs drunk.
Seven years after I have changed only the size and binding. |