Daniil Kharms and the Poetics of the Absurd: Essays and Materials

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Daniil Kharms, Black Miniaturist....Pages 3-21
On Daniil Kharms....Pages 22-31
A Kharms Chronology....Pages 32-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Daniil Kharms in the Context of Russian and European Literature of the Absurd....Pages 49-70
The Anti-World of Daniil Kharms: On the Significance of the Absurd....Pages 71-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Towards an Interpretation of Kharms’s Sluchai....Pages 97-122
Slobodan Pešić’s film Slučaj Harms and Kharms’s Sluchai....Pages 123-131
Elements of the Fantastic in Daniil Kharms’s Starukha....Pages 132-148
Some Features of the Poetics of Kharms’s Prose: The Story ‘Upadanie’ (‘The Falling’)....Pages 149-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
On One Enigmatic Poem by Daniil Kharms....Pages 159-168
‘I Razrushenie’....Pages 169-170
Kharms’s ‘1st Destruction’....Pages 171-174
Daniil Kharms’s Poetic System: Text, Context, Intertext....Pages 175-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
The Oberiuty and the Theatricalisation of Life....Pages 195-199
Kharms’s Play Elizaveta Bam....Pages 200-219
Yelizaveta Bam: A Dramatic Work. A new translation from the definitive text by Neil Cornwell....Pages 220-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Beyond the Turning-Point: An Afterword....Pages 243-267
Selected Bibliography....Pages 268-277
Back Matter....Pages 278-282