Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


S. Krzhizhanovsky

The World As a «Girl/Child Point of View»: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s Practices of «Estrangement»

The features of visual poetics of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky are considered in the article. The technique of «estrangement» as described by the Russian formalists is traced in the writer’s prose.

«Regents of Our Dreams Struggling with the Guardians of Our Minds»: on S. D. Krzhizhanovsky’s Works That Failed to Be Published During the «Thaw» Period

The article analyzes the circumstances of fiction and theoretical works by S. D. Krzhizhanovsky being banned for publication at the end of the 1950s due to censorship. For the first time unpublished internal reviews of the author’s works from the archives of the publishing house «Sovietsky pisatel» are drawn on, as well as the materials of the committee on the writer’s literary legacy, and the letters of his friends (RGALI – Russian State Archive of Literature and Art).