"I am a phenomenon quite out of the ordinary" : the notebooks, diaries, and letters of Daniil Kharms   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2066280B

  Author(s)

  Anemone, Anthony

  City

  Boston 

  Country

  United States 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9781936235964 

  Date of Publication

  2013 

  Publisher

  Academic Studies Press  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  585 

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Anemone, Anthony

  Publisher

  Academic Studies Press  

• Description

  In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms, (1905-42), one of the founders of Russia's “lost literature of the absurd,” wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the first time in recent years in Russian, these notebooks provide an intimate look at the daily life and struggles of one of the central figures of the literary avant-garde in Post-Revolutionary Leningrad. While Kharms's stories have been translated and published in English, these diaries represents an invaluable source for English-language readers who having already discovered Kharms in translation desire to learn about the life and times of an avant-garde writer in the first decades of Soviet power.