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Children's Books

Daniil Kharms

Literature & Fiction

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Daniil Kharms was one of the most iconoclastic writers to emerge from the hotbed of the early Soviet avant garde, but has only recently been recognised internationally. English language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms' cult reputation as a master of formal invention and of what today would be called 'micro-fiction'. Kharms' uniquely deadpan style developed out of - and in spite of - the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia. An exciting discovery for fans of writers as disparate as George Saunders, John Ashbery, Diane Williams, and Martin McDonagh, "Today I Wrote Nothing" is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.

Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Duckworth & Co.

Book by Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky

Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd: A Literary Discovery (Selected Works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky)

Cornell University Press

1997 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTCOVER

The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd (European Classics)

Alexander Vvedensky

George Gibian

Literary

Northwestern University Press

The plummeting old women (Essays and texts in cultural history)

Lilliput Press

The Charms of Harms: Selected Poems

Matteo Publishing

The reader introduces an important literary work to students of Russian literature and culture, and serves as an excellent text for Russian language learners. The exercises in the reader focus on verbs of motion and verbs of position - a major topic in learning Russian! The Old Woman is a uniquely strange and multifaceted work that will engage the reader in many respects. On one level, it is absurdist literature used to great humorous effect. Its illogical, nonsensical, and fantastical situations recall the surreal humor in the works of Lewis Carroll. On another level, the story, completed in 1939 following Stalin's purges and the Great Terror, can be read as political allegory, obliquely conveying the repressions, violence, and brutality of Soviet Russia of the time. The Old Woman is an innovative imaginative work that is at once disturbing, darkly funny, and thought provoking.

The Old Woman. An Annotated Russian Reader with Exercises on Verbs of Motion (B1-B2)

James S. Levine

iLearnRussian Publishers, an imprint of Russia Online, Inc.

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."

History & Criticism

Overlook Duckworth+

Featuring the acclaimed novella The Old Woman and darkly humorous short prose sequence Events (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in English. A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms' archives, being recognized internationally. In this brilliant translation by Matvei Yankelevich, English-language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms s literary reputation a reputation that grew in Russia even as the Soviet establishment worked to suppress it.

Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms

Contemporary

The Overlook Press

Zwischenfalle

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag; Frankfurt am Main

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