Russian Absurd: Selected Writings Contributor(s): Kharms, Daniil (Author), Cigale, Alex (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810134578 ISBN-13: 9780810134577 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Poetry | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
Series: Northwestern World Classics |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.62 lbs) 280 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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 Velimir Khlebnikov. 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. |