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"I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary"
Daniil Ivano Kharms
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Description for "I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary"
Hardback. "A fascinating look into the life and mind of poet and prose miniaturist Daniil Kharms .. Anemone and Scotto offer a wide-ranging selection of materials from Kharms's private notebooks, diaries, letters, and even documents from the KGB archives detailing Kharms's tragic end in a psychiatric prison hospital."--Page 4 of cover. Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 600 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 993.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781936235964
SKU
V9781936235964
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About Daniil Ivano Kharms
Anthony Anemone (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is associate professor of Russian language and literary studies at the New School. He is the author of "The Anti-World of Daniil Kharms: On the Significance of the Absurd" and the editor of Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia.|Peter Scotto (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is professor of Russian language and ... Read more
Reviews for "I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary"
“[Kharms’s notebooks] are generously sampled and gracefully translated by Anemone (The New School) and Scotto (Mount Holyoke College). . . . Not only have they succeeded in producing a vivid, often poignant portrait of Kharms, they offer a host of new texts in English—many as funny, violent, and profoundly existential as any seen before. . . . Highly recommended.” —M. Kasper ... Read more