Russian Absurd: Selected Writings

by Daniil Kharms

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810134578
• ISBN13: 9780810134577
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"