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: a provincial jo...
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New York Review of Books,
2013.
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| 008 | 140120s2013 eng | ||
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| 020 | |a 9781590176702 |c $15.95 | ||
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| 100 | 1 | |a Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Autobiography of a corpse / |c Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull with Nilolai Formozov. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b New York Review of Books, |c 2013. | ||
| 300 | |a 203 p. | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 500 | |a Introduction by Adam Thirlwell | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Short stories, Russian |v Translations into English. | |
| 949 | |a schlow |b SAPAB |c Krzhizhanovsky |d i |e 39635103225702 |f 540760 |g locNI |j 01/20/2014 | ||
| 999 | |a 355802 | ||
