Autobiography of a Corpse

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Autobiography of a Corpse
Autobiography of a Corpse
Author : Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Language : English
Release Date : 03 December 2013
ISBN : 9781590176962
Pages : 256 pages
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Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Book PDF Summary

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.

Autobiography of a Corpse

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