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NYRB Classics
December 2013
On Sale: December 3, 2013
256 pages ISBN: 1590176707 EAN: 9781590176702 Kindle: B00CGHRDUU Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction
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.
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