http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/yellow_coal_3268.jsp Comments for "Yellow Coal, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/yellow_coal_3268.jsp A new energy source that can save the world from climate crisis and destruction has been discovered: yellow coal, the harnessed energy of human spite. But how long will it last, and what happens when people start to get happy? Written in the 1920s, and rejected by publishers for not being "contemporary", this surreal and darkly comic short story by the "unsung genius" of Russian fiction, describes an anti-utopia that resonates today.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/yellow_coal_3268.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/yellow_coal_3268.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/yellow_coal_3268.jsp#comment europe arts &amp; cultures literature Original Copyright Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 3268 at http://www.opendemocracy.net