Sigizmund krzhizhanovsky autobiography of a corpse 7

Over the past few years, NYRB Classics has released two books of tales (we can call them science fiction, philosophical, political) from the Soviet writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: Memories of the Future (my thoughts here; our podcast covering it here) and The Letter Killers Club (my thoughts here).

Many of the stories in Autobiography of a Corpse are about identity and relationships, by which I mean they deal with the way identity is formed by, or.

This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky's most dazzling conceits.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (), the Ukrainian-born son of Polish emigrants, studied law and classical philology at Kiev University.

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In his instructive introduction to Autobiography of a Corpse, Adam Thirwell organizes Krzhizhanovsky's aesthetic tendencies into two discernable.

It&#;s remarkable that these books and stories have found their way to us at all, because when Krzhizhanovksy died in he still hadn&#;t been able to publish them. While he did try to get some stuff through the Soviet censors, his writing was considered so subversive that many were not even shown to Krzhizhanovsky&#;s editors.

I loved those two books, as elusive as they are, and consequently Autobiography of a Corpse was one of my most highly anticipated publications of Now it has made the Best Translated Book Award longlist.

I&#;ve been wrestling with this collection of eleven relatively short (most between ten and thirty pages) for the past four months.

It was a pleasure simpl