Autobiography of a Corpse (New York Review Books Classics)
Book Details
Author(s)Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
PublisherNYRB Classics
ISBN / ASIN1590176707
ISBN-139781590176702
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours
Sales Rank106,341
CategoryFiction
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
An NYRB Classics Original
Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize
Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize
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.
Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize
Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize
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.
