| #393520 in Books | 2017-02-15 | Original language:English | 7.75 x.90 x5.13l,.0 | File type: PDF | 280 pages||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| excellent translation|By Svetlana|Finally, an excellent translation of Kharms into English. As a writer of the absurd, he takes a huge place in the Russian literature. I am glad now English readers will have an opportunity to read his works as well.||
"Reading this book makes me want to put myself in Kharms’s way." —Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story
A writer who defies categorization, Daniil Kharms has come to be regarded as an essential artist of the modernist avant-garde. His writing, which partakes of performance, narrative, poetry, and visual elements, was largely suppressed during his lifetime, which ended in a psychiatric ward where he starved to death during the siege of Leningrad. His work, which survived mostly in notebooks, can now be seen as one of the pillars of absurdist literature, most explici...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Russian Absurd: Selected Writings (Northwestern World Classics) | Daniil Kharms. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
