Description
In these eleven uncanny tales, a provincial journalist in Moscow, a pianist whose hand escapes its owner, and other dreamlike figures find their lives hijacked by strange doubles, runaway objects, and narratives that seem to write them back. With sly humor and razor-precise detail, the stories unfold as high-concept parables about identity, authorship, and the thin seam between reality and imagination—where a room’s past can consume the present and even philosophy can be overturned by the logic of the absurd. Originally penned in the 1920s and ’30s but largely unpublished in the author’s lifetime, Krzhizhanovsky’s polished, poetic prose turns the everyday into a stage for metaphysical mischief. This new translation by Joanne Turnbull brings to English a mind-bending collection that will delight, unsettle, and linger long after the last page.
Available Editions
paperback
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Published Jan 1, 2013
257 pages
ISBN: 9781306910347
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Details
First Published
2013
Language
eng
Translation
From: rus
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.