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Autobiography Of A Corpse, December 2013
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CORPSE
By: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

NYRB Classics
December 2013
On Sale: December 3, 2013
256 pages
ISBN: 1590176707
EAN: 9781590176702
Kindle: B00CGHRDUU
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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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