Autobiography Of A Corpse
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Autobiography Of A Corpse
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Author : Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2013-12-03
Autobiography Of A Corpse written by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-03 with Fiction categories.
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize The 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 Autobiography of a Corpse, and the extraordinary spills out.
Rest In Pieces
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Author : Bess Lovejoy
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-03-12
Rest In Pieces written by Bess Lovejoy and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-12 with Social Science categories.
A “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead. For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer’s office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination. Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln’s corpse. Einstein’s brain went on a cross-country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy—which they drank. From Alexander the Great to Elvis Presley, and from Beethoven to Dorothy Parker, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses, and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death.
Unwitting Street
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Author : Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2020-08-18
Unwitting Street written by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-18 with Fiction categories.
Eighteen strange, whimsical, and philosophical tales by the Russian master of the weird, all now in English for the very first time. When Comrade Punt does not wake up one Moscow morning--he has died--his pants dash off to work without him. The ambitious pants soon have their own office and secretary. So begins the first of eighteen superb examples of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's philosophical and phantasmagorical stories. Where the stories included in two earlier NYRB collections (Memories of the Future and Autobiography of a Corpse) are denser and darker, the creations in Unwitting Street are on the lighter side: an ancient goblet brimful of self-replenishing wine drives its owner into the drink; a hypnotist's attempt to turn a fly into an elephant backfires; a philosopher's free-floating thought struggles against being "enlettered" in type and entombed in a book; the soul of a politician turned chess master winds up in one of his pawns; an unsentimental parrot journeys from prewar Austria to Soviet Russia.
Chronicle Of A Corpse Bearer
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Author : Cyrus Mistry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-04-18
Chronicle Of A Corpse Bearer written by Cyrus Mistry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-18 with Fiction categories.
Phiroze Elchidana, son of a Parsi priest, falls in love with Sepideh, daughter of an old khandhia, or corpse bearer. In order to marry her, he agrees to join the caste of untouchables that carried the corpses to the Towers of Silence in Bombay.
Lenin S Embalmers
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Author : I. B. Zbarskiĭ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Lenin S Embalmers written by I. B. Zbarskiĭ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biochemists categories.
Professor Ilya Zbarski embalmed Lenin two months after his death. This text reveals the story of his family and of those who worked in the mausoleum laboratory. It also contains archival and contemporary photographs.
The Corpse Roads Of Cumbria
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Author : Alan Cleaver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-07
The Corpse Roads Of Cumbria written by Alan Cleaver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-07 with categories.
This is the black and white version. There is also a full colour version on Amazon. Criss-crossing the Cumbrian landscape are many trods, paths, lonnings and other ancient trackways. Included among these are several corpse roads. The enigmatic name hints at their curious origins. These paths were used until the 18th Century to transport the dead from the remote villages to the 'mother' church for burial. Eventually villagers petitioned for their own churches and burial rights but the corpse roads remained. Alan Cleaver and Lesley Park have researched these ancient paths and the stories surrounding them. The book also explores Cumbrian funeral customs and superstitions.
A History Of Delusions
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Author : Victoria Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Release Date : 2023-07-18
A History Of Delusions written by Victoria Shepherd and has been published by Oneworld Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with Psychology categories.
The extraordinary ways the brain can misfire ‘Fascinating and compassionate’ Horatio Clare The King of France – thinking he was made of glass – was terrified he might shatter…and he wasn’t alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into France’s asylums. Throughout the nineteenth century, dozens of middle-aged women tried to convince their physicians that they were, in fact, dead. For centuries we’ve dismissed delusions as something for doctors to sort out behind locked doors. But delusions are more than just bizarre quirks – they hold the key to collective anxieties and traumas. In this groundbreaking history, Victoria Shepherd uncovers stories of delusions from medieval times to the present day and implores us to identify reason in apparent madness.
Walter Benjamin And The Corpus Of Autobiography
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Author : Gerhard Richter
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2000
Walter Benjamin And The Corpus Of Autobiography written by Gerhard Richter and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Collections categories.
Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin 's autobiographical writings.
Autobiography Of Edward Lord Herbert Of Cherbury
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Author : Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
Autobiography Of Edward Lord Herbert Of Cherbury written by Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Ambassadors categories.