{"product_id":"autobiography-of-a-corpse-sigizmund-krzhizhanovsky-9781590176702","title":"Autobiography of a Corpse","description":"An NYRB Classics Original \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590176707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590176702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/12\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/24\/2013 pg. 23","brand":"Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050788221183,"sku":"9781590176702","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_83a056bd-9a84-4339-a963-f760186dfcdc.jpg?v=1685009247","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/autobiography-of-a-corpse-sigizmund-krzhizhanovsky-9781590176702","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}