Russian Absurd : Selected Writings Paperback / softback
by Daniil Kharms
Part of the Northwestern World Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 explicitly manifested in the 1920s and ’30s Soviet Union by the OBERIU group, which inherited the mantle of Russian futurism from such poets as Vladimir Mayakovsky and VelimirKhlebnikov.
This selection of prose and poetry provides the most comprehensive portrait of the writer in English translation to date, revealing the arc of his career and including a particularly generous selection of his later work.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2017
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- ISBN:9780810134577
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780810134577
