The Plummeting Old Women by Daniil Kharms is a collection of stories, incidents, dialogues and fragments that forms an important part of the buried literature of Russian modernism now revealed under glasnost. These texts are characterized by a startling and macabre novelty, with elements of the grotesque, fantastic and child-like touching the imagination of the everyday. They express the cultural landscape of Stalinism – years of show trials, mass atrocities and stifled political life. Their painful, unsettling eloquence testify to the humane and the comic in this absurdist writer’s work. The translator Neil Cornwall gives a biographical introduction to his subject, enlarged upon by the poet Hugh Maxton in a contextual assessment of the writing of Flann O’Brien, Le Fanu and Doyle, and of their shared concerns with detective fiction, terror and death. Daniil Kharms 91905-42) died under Stalin. Along with fellow poets and prose-writers of the era – Khlebnikov, Biely, Mandelstam, Zabolotsky and Pasternak – he is one of the emerging experimentalists of Russian modernism.
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Daniil Kharms writes great short prose. Many of his works are silly and funny and The Plummeting Old Women is one them. After reading this you'll wonder why the Soviets locked Kharms up.
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Daniil Kharms writes some very good funny short prose. The Plummeting Old Women is one of these. After reading this you'll wonder why the Soviets locked him up.
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