Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms (Даниил Иванович Хармс; 1905–1942) was an early surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.
Writings
- Vo-pervych i vo-vtorych: Rasskaz dlya detey [Во-первых и во-вторых: Рассказ для детей], Moscow and Leningrad, 1929, 23 pp. [1] (Russian)
- Izbrannye rasskazy. Starucha [Избранные рассказы. Старуха]. (Russian)
- Selected Stories. (English)
- Izbrannyie proizviedeniia. (Russian)
- Боже, какая ужасная жизнь, и какое ужасное у меня состояние..., 1992. (Russian)
- Knakk! Om fenomener og eksistenser, trans. Thorvald Steen and Ulla Backlund, Oslo: Tiden, 1997, 114 pp. (Norwegian)
- Tsirk shardam [Цирк Шардам], 2001. (Russian)
- Prosa del otro y otros textos de vanguardia, trans. Jorge Segovia and Violetta Beck, Maldoror, 2009. (Spanish)
- "I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms, ed. & trans. Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013. (English)
- More
Literature
- Alice Stone Nakhimovsky, Laughter in the Void: An Introduction to the Writings of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedenskii, Vienna: Inst. für Slawistik der Univ. Wien, 1982, 199 pp, PDF. Review: Chances (SEEJ 1983). (English)
- Zh.-F. Zhakkar (Ж.-Ф. Жаккар), Daniil Kharms i konets russkogo avangarda [Даниил Хармс и конец русского авангарда], St Petersburg: Akademicheskiy proekt, 1995, 471 pp. (Russian)
- Sara Pankenier Weld, "Infant Mind: Daniil Kharms, Childish Alogism, and OBERIU Literature of the Absurd", ch 4 in Weld, Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde, Northwestern University Press, 2014, pp 156-207. [2] (English)
