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Autobiography of a Corpse

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

3.87/5 (964 ratings)

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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.

Contents:
Autobiography of a corpse --
In the pupil --
Seams --
The collector of cracks --
The land of nots --
The runaway fingers --
The unbitten elbow --
Yellow coal --
Bridge over the Styx --
Thirty pieces of silver --
Postmark: Moscow.

Format:

Pages:: 230 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1590176707

ISBN13:: 9781590176702

kindle Asin:: B0BX6B19CG

Autobiography of a Corpse

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

3.87/5 (964 ratings)

Read Download

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.

Contents:
Autobiography of a corpse --
In the pupil --
Seams --
The collector of cracks --
The land of nots --
The runaway fingers --
The unbitten elbow --
Yellow coal --
Bridge over the Styx --
Thirty pieces of silver --
Postmark: Moscow.

Format:

Pages:: 230 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1590176707

ISBN13:: 9781590176702

kindle Asin:: B0BX6B19CG

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