Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Native name
Сигизмунд Кржижановский
Born(1887-02-11)11 February 1887
Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
DiedDecember 28, 1950(1950-12-28) (aged 63)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Sigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky (Russian: Сигизму́нд Домини́кович Кржижано́вский, IPA: [sʲɪɡʲɪzˈmunt dəmʲɪˈnʲikəvʲɪtɕ kʐɨʐɨˈnofskʲɪj],[1] Polish: Zygmunt Krzyżanowski; 11 February [O.S. 30 January] 1887 – 28 December 1950) was a Russian and Soviet writer, playwright, philosopher, and historian, who described himself as "known for being unknown".[2] He published only a few stories and essays in his lifetime; the majority of his writings were published posthumously.[3]

  1. ^ The Russian Cyrillic translieration of the Polish digraph [rz] is [рж]. Hence, the Russian transliteration retains the Polish-style pronunciation of this diagraph , namely /ʐ/. See: "рж"&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover Польская грамматика, 1833, p. 2.
  2. ^ Tarves, Kirsten (2018). "Introduction". The lords of in-between: the trickster and liminal figure in the fiction of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, 1925-1928 (Master's thesis). University of Manitoba. hdl:1993/33715. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  3. ^ Leiderman, N. L. (2012). "The Intellectual Worlds of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky". The Slavic and East European Journal. 56 (4): 507–535. ISSN 0037-6752. JSTOR 24392613.