"I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary"

The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms

af Daniil Kharms

In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of the founders of Russiäs ¿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 pu... (Læs mere)