Today I Wrote Nothing

The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Hardcover, 272 pages

English language

Published Nov. 1, 2007 by Overlook Hardcover.

ISBN:
978-1-58567-743-6
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Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms' archives, being recognized internationally. In this brilliant translation by Matvei Yankelevich, English-language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms s literary reputation a reputation that grew in Russia even as the Soviet establishment worked to suppress it.

A master of formally inventive poetry and what today would be called micro-fiction, Kharms built off the legacy of Russian Futurist writers to create a uniquely deadpan style written out of and in spite of the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia. Featuring the acclaimed novella The Old Woman and darkly humorous short prose sequence Events (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long …

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Subjects

  • Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
  • Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -
  • Russian Literature
  • Literary Criticism
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Russian
  • Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
  • Russian & Former Soviet Union
  • Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union