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, inclu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
[2013]
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| Series: | New York Review Books classics.
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| Summary: | 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, including 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 230 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1590176707 (paperback : alk. paper) 9781590176702 (paperback : alk. paper) |