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Russian Absurd: Selected Writings (Northwestern World Classics) Paperback – February 15, 2017

by Daniil Kharms (Author), Alex Cigale (Translator)

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A writer who defies categorization, Daniil Kharms has come to be regarded as an essential artist of the modernist avant-garde. His writing, which partakes of performance, narrative, poetry, and visual elements, was largely suppressed during his lifetime, which ended in a psychiatric ward where he starved to death during the siege of Leningrad. His work, which survived mostly in notebooks, can now be seen as one of the pillars of absurdist literature, most explicitly manifested in the 1920s and ’30s Soviet Union by the OBERIU group, which inherited the mantle of Russian futurism from such poets as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov. This selection of prose and poetry provides the most comprehensive portrait of the writer in English translation to date, revealing the arc of his career and including a particularly generous selection of his later work.

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"Reading this book makes me want to put myself in Kharms’s way." —Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story

"If the prospect of reading a minimalist, absurdist, surrealist Russian intimidates, Cigale’s translation should help allay those fears. His agile rendering of Kharms’s work is as fine a representation in English as I’ve seen of the ambiguity, shading, and tense-shifting that typifies Russian prose, aspects that English translations too often muddle." —Il’ja Rákoš, The Millions

"Russian Absurd is not only a fitting introduction to Kharms, but it should inspire readers to seek out other translations by Alex Cigale, who was awarded a 2015 NEA Literary Translation Fellowship." —Rain Taxi

"...lively and funny... a profound and subtle testament to Kharms." —Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

DANIIL KHARMS (1905–1942) was a major figure in twentieth-century Russian and Soviet literature. An enigmatic and genre-bending artist, he was among the most significant voices in what came to be known as the literature of Russian absurdism.

ALEX CIGALE was awarded an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship in 2015. His translations from Russian and his original poetry in English have appeared in such journals as the New England Review, PEN America, TriQuarterly, and World Literature Today.

Series: Northwestern World Classics
Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Northwestern University Press (February 15, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810134578
ISBN-13: 978-0810134577
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 1 customer review
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,149,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #180 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > Russian
- #330 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Russian
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Lana

excellent translation

April 6, 2017

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Finally, an excellent translation of Kharms into English. As a writer of the absurd, he takes a huge place in the Russian literature. I am glad now English readers will have an opportunity to read his works as well.

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