"The Russian Borges" will do well enough to describe Krzhizhanovsky, although [b:Ficciones|426504|Ficciones|Jorge Luis Borges|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347314567s/426504.jpg|1007116] was written twenty years after this book. Aggressively meta and weird, he comes by way of Gogol and Zamyatin, and...
Interesting stories, oppression being a big theme, but didn't really take off for me. I gave up after in the middle of the fourth (of about eight) stories.