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)
- "Bozhe, kakaya uzhasnaya zhizn i kakoe uzhasnoe u menya sostoyanie" [Боже, какая ужасная жизнь, и какое ужасное у меня состояние], ed., intro. & afterw. Vladimir Glotser, Novyi mir 2, 1992, pp 192-224, PDF. Transcripts from diaries and notebooks.
- Polnoe sobranie sochineniy, 1. Stikhotvoreniya [Полное собрание сочинений, 1. Стихотворения], ed. V.N. Sazhin, St Petersburg: Akademicheskiy proekt, 1997, 440 pp. (Russian)
- Knakk! Om fenomener og eksistenser, trans. Thorvald Steen and Ulla Backlund, Oslo: Tiden, 1997, 114 pp. (Norwegian)
- Tsirk shardam [Цирк Шардам], 2001. (Russian)
- Neizdannyy Kharms. Polnoe sobranie sochineniy. Traktaty i staty. Pisma. Dopolneniya k t. 1-3 [Неизданный Хармс. Полное собрание сочинений. Трактаты и статьи. Письма. Дополнения к т. 1–3], ed. V.N. Sazhin, St Petersburg: Akademicheskiy proekt, 2001, 319 pp. (Russian)
- Polnoe sobranie sochineniy. Zapisnye knizhki. Dnevnik [Полное собрание сочинений. Записные книжки. Дневник], vol 1, vol 2, eds. Zh.-F. Zhakkar and V.N. Sazhin, St Petersburg: Akademicheskiy proekt, 2002, 480 & 416 pp. (Russian)
- Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, ed. & trans. Matvei Yankelevich, New York: Overlook Press, 2007; London: Duckworth, 2009, 288 pp. [2]. Reviews: Saunders (NYT), Wood (LRB). (English)
- 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)
- Branislav Jakovljevic, Daniil Kharms: Writing and the Event, Northwestern University Press, 2009, xiii+298 pp. [3] (English)
- 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. [4] (English)
