AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CORPSE

The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly c
omic 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 t
o Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his room's previou
s 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 i
nspires 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.