| Description |
xviii, 230 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
New York Review Books classics |
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New York Review Books classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Language |
Translated from the Russian. |
| Subject |
Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, Russian. (OCoLC)fst01117348
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Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, Russian. (OCoLC)fst01750191
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Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726607
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Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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Short stories.
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Fantasy fiction.
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| Added Author |
Thirlwell, Adam, 1978- writer of added commentary.
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Turnbull, Joanne, translator.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections. English. 2013
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| ISBN |
1590176707 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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9781590176702 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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9781590176962 (electronic book) |
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