Daniil Kharms – författare

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.

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.

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.

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.

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers.For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.This book contains:- A. E. W. Mason:The Affair At The Semiramis HotelThe ClockGreen PaintEnsign KnightleyThe Man Of WheelsThe CowardKeeper Of The Bishop- Julian Hawthorne:David Poindexter''s Disappearance.Ken''s Mystery.When Half-gods Go, the Gods Arrive.Set Not Thy Foot on Graves.My Friend Paton.The Christmas Guest.The Laughing Mill- Kenneth Grahame:The Twenty-First of OctoberDies IraeMutabile SemperThe Magic RingIts Walls Were as of JasperA Saga of the SeasThe Reluctant Dragon- John Kendrick Bangs:The Water Ghost Of Harrowby HallThe Spectre Cook Of BangletopA Midnight VisitorThe Speck On The LensA Quicksilver CassandraThe Ghost ClubA Psychical Prank- Frank R. Stockton:The Bee-Man Of Orn.The Griffin And The Minor Canon.Old Pipes And The Dryad.The Queen''s Museum.Prince Hassak''s March.The Battle Of The Third Cousins.The Banished King.- Jacques Futrelle:The Problem of Cell 13The Thinking MachineFive Millions by WirelessKidnapped Baby Blake, MillionaireThe Problem of the Motor BoatThe Problem of the Opera BoxThe Problem of the Vanishing man- Ella D''Arcy:IrremediableWhite MagicA MarriageIn NormandyThe Pleasure-PilgrimThe Web of MayaAn Engagement- John Buchan:Politics and the MayflyThe Keeper of CademuirThe Wife of FlandersThe Watcher by the ThresholdComedy in the Full MoonThe Herd of Standlan- E. F. Benson:The Room in the TowerCaterpillarsMrs. AmworthMr. Tilly''s SéanceNegotium PerambulansHow Fear Departed from the Long GalleryThe Horror-Horn- Daniil Kharms:Symphony no. 2On phenomena and existences - No. 1The thingAndrey SemyonovichAn unexpected drinking boutThe destiny of a professor''s wifeThe memoirs of a wise old man

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Russia.For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.This book contains:- Leonid Andreyev:- Lazarus- On The Day of Crucifixion- The Crushed Flower- The Serpent''s Story- JUdas Iscariot- The Little Angel- A Story Wich Will Never Be Finished- Daniil Kharms:- Symphony no. 2- On phenomena and existences - No. 1- The thing- Andrey Semyonovich- An unexpected drinking bout- The destiny of a professor''s wife- The memoirs of a wise old man- Alexander Pushkin:- The Queen of Spades- The Shot- The Snowstorm- The Postmaster- The Coffin-maker- Kirdjali- Peter, The Great''s Negro- Ivan Turgenev:- A Desperate Character- Knock, Knock, Knock- A Strange Story- The Dog- The District Doctor- The Inn- Mumu- Maxim Gorky:- Her Lover- One Autumn Night- Twenty Six Men and a Girl- The Dead Man- Waiting for the Ferry- The Billionaire- The Birth of a Man

Absurdist fiction is a genre of fictional narrative (traditionally, literary fiction), most often in the form of a novel, play, poem, or film, that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value.The critic Augst Nemo selected seven short stories of the absurd for his appreciation:- A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka- In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka- Before the Law by Franz Kafka- Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft- Andrey Semyonovich by Daniil Kharms- A sonnet by Daniil Kharms- Symphony no. 2 by Daniil KharmsFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!