Daniil Kharms

the selected writings of Daniil Kharms

Today I wrote nothing

A comprehensive, English-language collection of prose and poetry by the late iconoclastic writer offers insight into his considerable achievements during the post-Soviet era as well as his lasting influence in spite of his government's efforts to suppress his work. Reprint.

The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms

Today I Wrote Nothing

A comprehensive English-language translation of forefront prose and poetry by the late eminent Soviet absurdist offers insight into his inspiration by Futurist writers and the views that led to his suppression, incarceration, and death, in a volume that includes the acclaimed novella, "The Old Woman" and the short prose sequence, "Events."

The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Incidences

“With remarkable precision and fluid language, the stories capture everyday tension in a land where an innocent knock on the door might mean entrapment in a bureaucratic maze or even death at the hands of the military.”—The New York Times Book Review This collection of stories is composed of short miniatures, many of which the author called “incidents.” The quirky, bold writing of Incidences perfectly captures the surreal spirit of its times.

Literal Anecdotes 

Esqueci Como Se Chama

Drama. Poetry. Translated from the Russian by C Dylan Bassett and Emma Winsor Wood. People disappear without explanation. The government takes hostages. War and death occur without reason or meaning. The cycle of poverty and deprivation proliferates. A FAILED PERFORMANCE is a collection of bizarre and darkly humorous plays and scenes from the Russian avant-garde writer Daniil Kharms. This collection--the first volume in English dedicated entirely to Kharms's dramatic works--includes his major stage plays Elizaveta Bam and Lapa as well as lesser-known sketches and hybrid poem-plays, most of which were never published or performed during his lifetime.

Short Plays & Scenes

A Failed Performance

Casi

Ian Frazier

Brief stories and poems written in an absurdist style by this Russian author who died in exile.

Stories and Poems

It Happened Like this

Selected Writings

Russian Absurd

المرأة العجوز

This is a comprehensive collection of Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms's prose and poetry. Featuring the acclaimed novella 'The Old Woman', and darkly humorous short prose sequence 'Events', 'Today I Wrote Nothing' also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia.

Mavi Not Defteri

Denne boka presenterer et utvalg av dikt og tekster av den russiske absurdisten Daniil Kharms (1905-1941). Gjendiktet av Ulla Backlund og Torvald Steen.

om fenomener og eksistenser

Knakk!

I Had Raised Dust

Dobytku smíchu netřeba

Disastri

Per tutta la vita Daniil Charms è stato considerato un autore per bambini - e lui i bambini non li sopportava. Mentre le sue fiabe bislacche popolavano libri e riviste illustrate dandogli qualcosa di cui campare, nel silenzio della sua stanza scriveva febbrilmente anche racconti per adulti, altrettanto immaginifici ma abitati da una malinconia lancinante, come di fiabe andate a male. Agli albori dell'urss questa sua fantasia disperata era però tollerabile solo se confinata dove era meno pericolosa, nella letteratura infantile. Erano gli adulti i veri bambini, da motivare e consolare con romanzi edificanti volti a glorificare l'ascesa del proletariato. Così, mentre fuori infuriava il realismo socialista, Daniil Charms scovava mondi impossibili tra le pieghe della realtà più prosaica: vecchie pettegole che si ribaltano dalla finestra, curiosi che si rompono l'orologio cercando di cogliere l'attimo, uomini seppelliti vivi che si rallegrano del bel funerale, uccelli dotati di denti (o forse no), sfide mortali a colpi di cetriolo, caterpillar col muso coperto di polvere. Un arsenale incredibile di storie che circolerà a lungo solo clandestinamente nei samizdat, libri illegali ricopiati a mano o battuti a macchina di nascosto. Paolo Nori, che ci ha rivelato la grandezza di questo pioniere della letteratura dell'assurdo, seleziona e monta insieme centinaia di frammenti narrativi, alternati a stralci dei diari, in cui Charms mette a nudo la sua tragica quotidianità. L'affresco di personaggi funambolici e animali incredibili si intarsia così con il minuto resoconto di una vita agra, vissuta ai margini della società letteraria fino a quando l'occhio fosco del Partito non si posa su questo strambo dissidente. L'Unione Sovietica cercò di cancellare Charms lasciandolo morire in un manicomio, ma per fortuna ha fallito: a noi, del mondo a venire, resteranno per sempre questi sfavillanti lampi di letteratura che lui chiamava "scemenze". Perché la scrittura, anziché stenografare la realtà, può reinventarla, così che ci appaia più vera.

Maxim Gorky

Alexander Pushkin

Leonid Andreyev

Ivan Turgenev

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. The theme of this edition is: Russia. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Leonid Andreyev: - Lazarus - On The Day of Crucifixion - The Crushed Flower - The Serpent's Story - JUdas Iscariot - The Little Angel - A Story Wich Will Never Be Finished - Daniil Kharms: - Symphony no. 2 - On phenomena and existences - No. 1 - The thing - Andrey Semyonovich - An unexpected drinking bout - The destiny of a professor's wife - The memoirs of a wise old man - Alexander Pushkin: - The Queen of Spades - The Shot - The Snowstorm - The Postmaster - The Coffin-maker - Kirdjali - Peter, The Great's Negro - Ivan Turgenev: - A Desperate Character - Knock, Knock, Knock - A Strange Story - The Dog - The District Doctor - The Inn - Mumu - Maxim Gorky: - Her Lover - One Autumn Night - Twenty Six Men and a Girl - The Dead Man - Waiting for the Ferry - The Billionaire - The Birth of a Man

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