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The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd

This book brings together works by two of the outstanding talents of Soviet literature, Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. It discloses a little-known tradition of absurdism that persisted during the Stalinist period, a testimony to both the hardiness of the Russian imagination in the face of socialist realism and the vitality of an important cultural and literary tradition.

Themes
art
Setting
20th centuryrussia
Mood
surreal
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 258 pages
Form
short storiespoetry

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