Today I Wrote Nothing
Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms Daniil Kharms, Matvei Yankelevich (Translator)
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
ISBN: 1585677434
DDC: 891
Edition: Hardcover; 2007-11-01
Summary:
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 admired in Russia, but never before available
in English. A major contribution for American readers and students of
Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary
writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin
McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing is an invaluable collection for
readers of innovative writing everywhere.
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