Incidences

Synopsis

This wonderfully inventive collection of stories presents the writing of russian absurdist daniil kharms at its vibrant, perplexing best. The book is composed of short miniatures: strange, funny, dream-like fragments? Many of which the author called? Incidents? ? That tend to feature accidents, falling, chance violence and sudden death. An outlaw classic banned by soviet censors until the 1980s, incidences vividly conveys the precarious nature of life in stalin? S russia.