Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms - Softcover

Daniil Kharms

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ISBN 10: 0715637711 ISBN 13: 9780715637715

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2009

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Daniil Kharms was one of the most iconoclastic writers to emerge from the hotbed of the early Soviet avant garde, but has only recently been recognised internationally. English language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms's cult reputation as a master of formal invention and of what today would be called micro-fiction . Kharms s uniquely deadpan style developed out of and in spite of the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia. An exciting discovery for fans of writers as disparate as George Saunders, John Ashbery, Diane Williams, and Martin McDonagh, 'Today I Wrote Nothing' is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.

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Review:

'Kharms's work is exhilarating ... We're reminded that narrative is not life, but a trick a writer does with language to make beauty' -- George Saunders, New York Times Book Review. 'Kharms's playful and poetic work ... [draws] critical comparisons to Beckett, Camus, and Ionesco' --New Yorker

'A dazzling book that gives me new hope for an avant garde writing that speaks to a larger audience' --Times Literary Supplement

'[Kharms's] enigmatic blend of laughter and violence will shock, delight and baffle' --Guardian

Synopsis:

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 recognised internationally. 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", "Today I Wrote Nothing" also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in English until now.

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