Autobiography of a Corpse (New York Review Books Classics)
Book Details
Author(s)
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Publisher
NYRB Classics
ISBN / ASIN
1590176707
ISBN-13
9781590176702
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Sales Rank
#106,341
Category
Fiction
Marketplace
India 🇮🇳
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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.
