Autobiography of a Corpse (New York Review Books Classics)

Autobiography of a Corpse (New York Review Books Classics)

An NYRB Classics Original

Winner of theÂ 2014 PEN Translation Prize

Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize

The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskyâ€™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 Krzhizhanovskyâ€™s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his roomâ€™s previous occupant; the fingers of a celebrated pianistâ€™s right hand run away to spend a night alone on the city streets; a manâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-12-03
Format Kindle eBook

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