Full name: Today I wrote nothing: the selected writing of Daniil Kharms

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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. Similar books: Soul by Andrey Platonov Through Russia by Maxim Gorky Incidences by Daniil Kharms Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol The Galosh by Mikhail Zoshchenko Collected Stories by Isaac Babel The Eternal Husband and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dark Avenues by Ivan Bunin The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov The Party and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov The Duel by Anton Chekhov From Karamzin to Bunin by Carl R. Proffer The Darling and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov