“It seems from the neologistic lexicon that most branches of medicine can now have a telecoms component, from teleradiology and telepathology to telenursing and telepsychiatry.”

“His eureka moment came in 1993 when he was at his kitchen table in front of a computer reading about punk and skateboarding, hoping to plunder the vivid, neologistic language.”

“Now the translators Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov introduce Krzhizhanovsky's neologistic whimsy, feverish invention and existential angst to a wider audience.”