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This wonderfully inventive collection of stories presents the writing of Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms at its vibrant, perplexing best. The book is composed of short miniatures: strange, funny, dream-like fragments many of which the author called incidents that tend to feature accidents, falling, chance violence and sudden death. An outlaw classic banned by Soviet censors until the 1980s, Incidences vividly conveys the precarious nature of life in Stalin s Russia. Writing in the 1920s as one of a group called the Society for Real Art, Kharms was first arrested in 1931, and told that he could only publish writing for children. Irrepressible, he was sent to the gulag in 1941 and died of starvation in a prison hospital a year later. With this new edition of Incidences we can rediscover a Russian writer whose bold writing and tragic death are an urgent reminder of the deranged spirit of his times.Product Identifiers
PublisherProfile Books
ISBN-139781852424800
eBay Product ID (ePID)87935427
Product Key Features
Book TitleIncidences
AuthorDaniil Kharms
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2006
Dimensions
Item Height196mm
Item Width128mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorDaniil Kharms
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom