Autobiography of a Corpse
Language: English
Published by NYRB Classics, 2013
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New! // 'An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize 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.' -- publisher.
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- Title
- Autobiography of a Corpse
- Author
- Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1590176707
- ISBN 13
- 9781590176702
- Item weight
- 0.6 ounces
- Seller catalogs
- New & Recommended
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Virtually unpublished during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables have since 1989 earned him a reputation as one of the greatest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.
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About the Author
SIGIZMUND KRZHIZHANOVSKY (1887 1950) studied law and classical philology at Kiev University. In his philosophical and satirical stories with fantastical plots, he ignored official injunctions to portray the new Soviet state in a positive light, and three separate efforts to print different collections were quashed by the censors, a fourth by World War II. Not until 1989 could these surreal fictions begin to be published. Both his story collection, Memories of the Future, and his novel, The Letter Killers Club, are available from NYRB Classics.
JOANNE TURNBULL has translated a number of books from Russian, including Krzhizhanovsky s The Letter Killers Club and Memories of the Future (short-listed for the Best Translated Book Award), both available from NYRB Classics.
ADAM THIRLWELL is the author of the novels Politics and The Escape, an essay on novels, The Delighted States, and most recently the experimental book with folding pages, Kapow!. He lives in London.
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