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“People with fantasy have nothing to do in love at all: after all, a real chess player can play without looking at the board; and if you really love, it's better not to look at the woman.

George Shengeli called Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky "a missed genius". “Today I am at odds, but eternity loves me,” the writer himself said about himself. He did not see any of his books, the first book came out thirty-nine years after his death. Now he is called "Russian Borges", "Russian Kafka", translated into European languages, published, studied and, most importantly, read with enthusiasm. Krzhizhanovsky's short stories are the brightest example of intellectual prose, they are elegant, like chess studies, but in each of them the pulse of time is felt and paths to the eternal mysteries of life are outlined