Daniil Kharms. Stuck in the Skies

The new book by Maxim Gureev "Daniil Kharms. Stuck in the Skies" is a creatively reinterpreted biography of Daniil Kharms, a unique and tragic figure, a "chinar", an OBERIU member, a children's poet and writer. In it, the author examines... the most important stages of Kharms' life and creativity, revealing his personality through letters, memories, possible dialogues, and of course, the poems of Daniil Kharms himself, his autographs, drawings, and photographs of him and his contemporaries. "Kharms, in the late thirties, said that what was most important to him was not art, but life: to make his life into art. This is not aestheticism: 'creating life as art' for Kharms was a category of a non-aesthetic order, but, as is said now, existential..."