| Uniform title | Short stories. Selections. English 2013 |
| Series |
New York Review Books classics
New York Review Books classics. ^A527571
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| 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. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Translations. |
| LCCN | 2013019761 |
| ISBN | 1590176707 (paperback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781590176702 (paperback : alk. paper) |
