Daniil Kharms
Birth date: December 30, 1905
Died: February 02, 1942
Daniil Kharms's Books
Kharms' [Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachov,1905-1942] stories are very short. 'Garrulity is the mother of mediocrity,' he wrote in his diary. He also wrote, at the height of the purges that would eventually take his life (he died of starvation while in prison), 'I am interested only in 'nonsense'; only in t...
The poems left me cold but the rest of this book was marvelous. To be honest, I'd never heard of Kharms and fell in love with the title while looking into some titles in modern Russian literature. The more I learned about him, the more intrigued I was, and the short "stories" and "incidents" in the ...
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