Product Description: 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...read more

A comprehensive English-language translation of forefront prose and poetry by the late eminent Soviet absurdist offers insight into his inspiration by Futurist writers and the views that led to his suppression, incarceration, and death, in a volume that includes the acclaimed novella, 'The Old Woman' and the short prose sequence, 'Events.'

A collection of the author's ten most popular stories includes a hilarious send-up of Aesopian fables featuring a five-legged crow who runs into a fox one day while out shopping for coffee.

Product Description: 1997 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTCOVER (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In a tale of team-spirit and determination, four friends try to reach their destination, using their collective wits and skills in order to overcome the obstacles they face and complete their journey successfully as a team.

Product Description: “With remarkable precision and fluid language, the stories capture everyday tension in a land where an innocent knock on the door might mean entrapment in a bureaucratic maze or even death at the hands of the military.”—The New York Times Book Review This collection of stories is composed of short miniatures, many of which the author called “incidents...read more

As he sleds swiftly down the hill, a boy runs into a hunter, a dog, a fox, a hare, and a bear