{"product_id":"autobiography-of-a-corpse-paperback","title":"Autobiography of a Corpse - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSigizmund Krzhizhanovsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoanne Turnbull\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAdam Thirlwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e, and the extraordinary spills out.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSigizmund Krzhizhanovsky\u003c\/b\u003e (1887-1950), the Ukrainian-born son of Polish emigrants, studied law and classical philology at Kiev University. After graduation and two summers spent exploring Europe, he was obliged to clerk for an attorney. A sinecure, the job allowed him to devote most of his time to literature and his own writing. In 1920, he began lecturing in Kiev on theater and music. The lectures continued in Moscow, where he moved in 1922, by then well known in literary circles. Lodged in a cell-like room on the Arbat, Krzhizhanovsky wrote steadily for close to two decades. His philosophical and phantasmagorical fictions ignored injunctions to portray the Soviet state in a positive light. Three separate efforts to print collections were quashed by the censors, a fourth by World War II. Not until 1989 could his work begin to be published. Like Poe, Krzhizhanovsky takes us to the edge of the abyss and forces us to look into it. \"I am interested,\" he said, \"not in the arithmetic, but in the algebra of life.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanne Turnbull\u003c\/b\u003e's translations from Russian in collaboration with Nikolai Formozov include Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Future \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Letter Killers Club\u003c\/i\u003e (both NYRB Classics). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Thirlwell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003ePolitics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Escape\u003c\/i\u003e; a novella, \u003ci\u003eKapow!\u003c\/i\u003e; an essay-book, \u003ci\u003eThe Delighted States\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; and a compendium of translations edited for \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e. He has twice been selected as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of Young British Novelists.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247101034745,"sku":"9781590176702","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YS9jSVZSM21wY1RYY1Bkak9lNVRyQT09.webp?v=1768620913","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/autobiography-of-a-corpse-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}