Autobiography of a Corpse -

Sigismund Krzyzanowski

NYRB Classics

2013

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9781590176702

The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskys 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 Krzhizhanovskys most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his rooms previous occupant; the fingers of a celebrated pianists right hand run away to spend a night alone on the city streets; a mans 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.