“i Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”
The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms
Academic Studies Press · Print & ebook · September 15, 2013
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Kharms’s notebooks and diary trace the daily life and struggles of an avant-garde writer.
- Genres
- Diaries & Journals Collection, Russian & Former Soviet Collections, Writers' Lives
- Published
- Academic Studies Press, September 15, 2013
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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.
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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.
Leningrad Notebooks
Kharms’s notebooks and diary trace the daily life and struggles of an avant-garde writer.
Come here for
- Notebooks and a diary
- A writer’s daily life and struggles
Expect
- An intimate look at literary life in Post-Revolutionary Leningrad
- A view of an avant-garde writer in the first decades of Soviet power
Where it sits
| Writers' Lives | 83% |
|---|---|
| Russian & Former Soviet Collections | 60% |
| Diaries & Journals Collection | 56% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Writers' Lives
- Diaries & Journals Collection
- East European Literary Criticism
- Russian & Soviet Poetry
- Authors
- Daniil Kharms, Antony Anemone, Peter Scotto
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press
- Published
- September 15, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Writers' Lives