Daniil Kharms

Daniil Harms, detail, 1930.

Daniil Harms and Alisa Poret, 1930.

Daniil Harms.

Daniil Kharms (Даниил Иванович Хармс; 1905–1942) was an early surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.

Writings

(in Russian unless noted)

• Vo-pervych i vo-vtorych: Rasskaz dlya detey [Во-первых и во-вторых: Рассказ для детей], Moscow and Leningrad, 1929, 23 pp. [1]
• Izbrannye rasskazy. Starucha [Избранные рассказы. Старуха].
  • Selected Stories. (in English)
• Izbrannyie proizviedeniia.
• Prosa del otro y otros textos de vanguardia, trans. Jorge Segovia and Violetta Beck, Maldoror, 2009. (in Spanish)
• Tsirk shardam [Цирк Шардам], 2001.

Literature

• 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.

Links

• Kharms on Wikipedia
• http://www.tedmilton.net/kharms/