"I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms Contributor(s): Anemone, Anthony (Commentaries by), Anemone, Anthony (Translator), Scotto, Peter (Commentaries by) |
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ISBN: 193623596X ISBN-13: 9781936235964 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $141.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
Dewey: 891.784 |
Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century |
Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.19 lbs) 600 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. 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. |