Autobiography of a Corpse
The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky's most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his room's previous occupant; the fingers of a celebrated pianist's right hand run away to spend a night alone on the city streets; a man's lifelong quest to bite his own elbow inspires both a hugely popular circus act and a new refutation of Kant. Ordinary reality cracks open before our eyes in the pages of Autobiography of a Corpse, and the extraordinary spills out.
An NYRB Classics Original
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 230
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781590176702
- Genres
- fiction, russia, fantasy, literature, classics, philosophy
- Release date
- 2013
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