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Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien.The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American)

Absurd (Philosophy) in literature. --- Daniil Kharms. --- Flann O'Brien. --- Franz Kafka. --- OBERIU. --- Samuel Beckett. --- Surrealism. --- absurd. --- absurdist literature. --- literary movements. --- prose fiction.

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In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of the founders of Russia's "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the first time in recent years in Russian, these notebooks provide an intimate look at the daily life and struggles of one of the central figures of the literary avant-garde in Post-Revolutionary Leningrad. While Kharms's stories have been translated and published in English, these diaries represents an invaluable source for English-language readers who, having already discovered Kharms in translation, desire to learn about the life and times of an avant-garde writer in the first decades of Soviet power.

Kharms, Daniil, -- 1905-1942. --- Languages & Literatures --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- Kharms, Daniil, --- Хармс, Даниил, --- Ювачев, Даниил Иванович, --- I︠U︡vachev, Daniil Ivanovich, --- Charms, Daniil, --- Хармс, Д. --- Kharms, D. --- Хармс, Даниил Иванович, --- Kharms, Daniil Ivanovich, --- Harms, Daniil, --- Charms, Daniel, --- Joevatsjov, Daniil Ivanovitsj, --- E-books --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union). --- Charms, Daniil I., --- Daniil Kharms. --- NKVD. --- Post-Revolutionary Leningrad. --- Soviet. --- Stalin. --- absurdism. --- art. --- avant-garde. --- biography. --- childrens literature. --- dada. --- drama. --- literary notebooks. --- poetry. --- political dissidence. --- politics. --- prison. --- prose. --- surrealism. --- writer. --- Kharms, Daniil