Autobiography Of A Corpse (Paperback, Main)

An NYRB Classics Original. Virtually unpublished during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables have since 1989 earned him a reputation as one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century. Included in this collection of eleven newly translated tales are some of his strangest and most brilliant conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his room's previous occupant, a suicide who vacated his hundred square feet in exchange for his successor's consideration of his manuscript; the fingers of a celebrated pianist's right hand run away to spend an abrasive night alone on the city streets; a man's lifelong quest to bite his own elbow inspires both a wildly popular circus act and a new refutation of Kant; a desperate energy crisis is resolved through the systematic exploitation of the one substance to reliably increase along with the dysfunctions of modern life: bile, or "yellow coal." Abounding in nested narratives, wild paradox, and improbably high stakes-what would you do if a Stygian toad landed on your pillow one night and asked for help in saving the world by building a bridge to death?-the unlikely stories in Autobiography of a Corpse ask you to take a second look at the cracks in everyday reality.

General

Imprint:	Nyrb Classics
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2014
First published:	December 2013
Authors:	Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Dimensions:	203 x 128 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-670-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	1-59017-670-7
Barcode:	9781590176702

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