Autobiography of a Corpse

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 12/03/2013
ISBN: 9781590176702
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.08w x 0.54d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/12/2013
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2013
New York Times Book Review 11/24/2013 pg. 23