Autobiography of a Corpse

By: Adam Thirlwell and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and Joanne Turnbull

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Synopsis: An NYRB Classics OriginalThe 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.g 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.