Daniil Kharms (1905 – 42)

Iam interested only in “nonsense”; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestation”


Daniil Kharms, experimental writer, children’s story-teller, member of the unconventional artistic grouping OBERIU, fine tuning antics and eccentricities into a practised art of “absurd life creation”.

Kharms often utilizes reoccurring obsessions: with falling, accidents, chance, sudden death, victimization and many forms of mindless violence which are often taken to extreme ends and consequences.

One man was pursuing another when the latter, who was running away, in his turn, pursued a third man who, not sensing the chase behind him, was simply walking at a brisk pace along the pavement.