Autobiography of a Corpse
New York : New York Review Books, [2013]
Format: Book
Description: xviii, 230 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
Series: New York Review Books classics.
Contents:
Autobiography of a corpse -- In the pupil seams -- The collector of cracks -- The land of nots -- The runaway fingers -- The unbitten elbow -- Yellow coal -- Bridge over the Styx -- Pieces of silver -- Postmark: Moscow.
ISBN:
1590176707 (paperback : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Krzhizhanovsky | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.