Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism

by Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms

OBERIU is an anthology of short works by three leading Russian absurdists: Alexander Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms, and Nikolai Zabolotsky. Between 1927 and 1930, the three made up the core of an avant-garde literary group called OBERIU (from an acronym standing for The Union of Real Art). It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed, that readers only began to discover its strange and singular brilliance three decades after...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810122936
• ISBN13: 9780810122932
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"