Today I wrote nothing : the selected writings of Daniil Kharms / Daniil Kharms ; translated by Matvei Yankelevich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kharms, Daniil, 1905-1942.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Kharms, Daniil, 1905-1942. Translations into English.

Kharms, Daniil.

Physical Description:

287 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Duckworth, 2007.

Language Note:

Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

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. A master of formally inventive poetry and what today would be calledmicro-fiction, Kharms built off the legacy of Russian Futurist writers to create a uniquely deadpan style written out of?and in spite of?the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia. Featuring the acclaimed novellaThe Old Woman? and darkly humorous short prose sequenceEvents? (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before availa

ISBN:

9781585677436

1585677434

OCLC:

156891305