"I am a Phenomenon Quite out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms - Couverture souple

Kharms, Daniil; Anemone, Antony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1618113720 ISBN 13 : 9781618113726

Editeur : Academic Studies Press, 2013

Synopsis

“I am a Phenomenon Quite out of the Ordinary” offers a fascinating look into the life and mind of poet and prose miniaturist Daniil Kharms (1905- 1942). One of the legendary figures of the “Last Soviet Avant-Garde,” Kharms was the tutelary spirit of “Russia’s lost literature of the absurd.” His work, rescued from oblivion by a dedicated group of friends and scholars, has attained an almost cult-like status among present-day Russia’s literary elite. In this volume, Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto translate a wide-ranging selection of materials from Kharms’ private notebooks, diaries, letters, and even documents from the KGB archives detailing Kharms’ tragic end in a psychiatric prison hospital—most never before published in English. This is essential reading for anyone interested in Russian literature, Soviet culture, and the inner workings of the mind of a quirky genius.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Scotto (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is professor of Russian language and literature at Mount Holyoke College. He has published many articles on Russian poetry and prose, and his translation of Aleksandr Blok's The Twelve appeared in the St. Petersburg Review in 2012.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Studies Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1618113720
• ISBN 13: 9781618113726
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 588
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• Personne responsable: non disponible