Russian Absurd

Author : Daniil Kharms
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810134586
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Absurd written by Daniil Kharms and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349116424
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniil Kharms and the Poetics of the Absurd written by Neil Cornwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays and other materials offers an assessment of the short prose, verse and drama of Daniil Kharms, Leningrad absurdist of the 1920s and 1930s, who was one of the last representatives of the Russian literary avante-garde.

Author : George Gibian
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393007237
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd written by George Gibian and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1974 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before in any language.

Author : Даниил Хармс
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man with the Black Coat written by Даниил Хармс and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eugene Ostashevsky
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810122936
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OBERIU written by Eugene Ostashevsky and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed, that readers only began to discover its strange and singular brilliance three decades after it was extinguished-and then only in samizdat and emigre publications.

Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805242465
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Jews Aren't written by Masha Gessen and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration. In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan.The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there. The state-building ended quickly, in the late 1930s, with arrests and purges instigated by Stalin. But after the Second World War, Birobidzhan received another influx of Jews—those who had been dispossessed by the war. In the late 1940s a second wave of arrests and imprisonments swept through the area, traumatizing Birobidzhan’s Jews into silence and effectively shutting down most of the Jewish cultural enterprises that had been created. Where the Jews Aren’t is a haunting account of the dream of Birobidzhan—and how it became the cracked and crooked mirror in which we can see the true story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia. (Part of the Jewish Encounters series)

Author : Mikhail N. Epstein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782388648
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Postmodernism written by Mikhail N. Epstein and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have been decisive for Russia not only politically but culturally as well. The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity. It offers a point of departure and valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. This second edition includes additional essays on the topic and a new introduction examining the most recent developments.

Author : Даниил Хармс
Publisher : Ithaca : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd: a Literary Discovery written by Даниил Хармс and published by Ithaca : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Transl.by George Gibian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd written by Transl.by George Gibian and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Kharms
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468316109
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Today I Wrote Nothing written by Daniel Kharms and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the acclaimed novella The Old Woman and darkly humorous short prose sequence Events (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in English. A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms' archives, being recognized internationally. In this brilliant translation by Matvei Yankelevich, English-language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms s literary reputation a reputation that grew in Russia even as the Soviet establishment worked to suppress it.