Daniil Kharms. Stuck in the Skies

The new book by Maxim Gureev, "Daniil Kharms. Stuck in the Skies," is a creatively reimagined biography of Daniil Kharms, a unique and tragic figure, a "chinara," an oberiut, a children's poet, and writer. In it, the author, examining the most important stages of Kharms's life and work, reveals his personality to us through letters, memories, possible dialogues, and, of course, the poems of Daniil Kharms himself, his autographs, drawings, photographs with him and his contemporaries. "In the late thirties, Kharms said that the main thing for him was always not art, but life: to make his life like art. This is not aestheticism: "creating life as art" for Kharms was not a category of aesthetic order, but, as they say now, existential..."