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SIGIZMUND KRZHIZHANOVSKY AS PLAYWRIGHT AND WORLD HISTORY AS FARCE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 7 (109). P. 134-143

The article discusses two little-known plays by the Russian modernist prose writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950), “The Embroidered Feedbag” (written 1929–30) and “The Third One” (written 1937), published only in 2010. In his own lifetime, S. Krzhizhanovsky was known primarily as a stage adaptor and specialist in the history of drama, as a writer on Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw, and as lecturer on philosophy and aesthetics of theater at the Actors’ Studio of the Moscow Chamber Theater.

Keywords: parody, comedy, tragicomedy, context, subtext phantasmagoria, story, tradition, Krzyzanowski.