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Autobiography Of A Corpse (2013)

by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1590176707 (ISBN13: 9781590176702)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

NYRB Classics

review 1: The stories here range from good to excellent. If you like Kafka, Beckett, Calvino or Borges, you will appreciate this book, though Krzhizhanovsky cannot with precision be compared directly to any of those writers. If you're familiar with the history of Western philosophy, even better. If, in addition to those qualifications, the first 20 years after the Russian Revolution hold a special fascination for you, then some of these stories will insinuate themselves into the folds of your cerebral cortex and permanently reshape it.
review 2: Krzhizhanovsky's writing is probably not to everyone's taste - it can be quite heady at times with lots of metaphor, allusion, and philosophy - but if you're looking for some mind-bending fiction or some intelligent parables then... more you can't go past Autobiography of a Corpse. Not all of the short stories in this collection are as well rounded as they could be, but all do offer something special. I love this guy's mind! These are the sort of stories that you can't wait to tell your friends about and only wish you had invented yourself! less

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