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 21cm
covers: 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.