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title: "\"I am a Phenomenon Quite out of the Ordinary\": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms (Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century)"
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# "I am a Phenomenon Quite out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms (Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century)

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## Customer Reviews

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    The transcription is pretty raw and gives you a good sense of the ...
  

*by C***. on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2017*

Thank heaven someone has made these available to English-speaking readers! I came in search of Kharms' complete notebooks after falling for the excerpt from the Blue Notebook in the anthology called OBERIU (Ed. Ostashevsky, Northwestern U. press). It is probably worth noting that that excerpt was much more coherent and accessible than the notebooks in general, but wading aimlessly through the author's brain is as enthralling, disturbing, and strangely intimate as you would expect. The transcription is pretty raw and gives you a good sense of the organization and general character of the notebooks themselves, with illegible passages noted and hats tipped to Kharms' sense of spontaneous formatting. There are even a few illustrations and (... diagrams?) replicated throughout.I won't attempt to do justice to the content of the notebooks - they read like a bizarre dream. Surrender your investment in understanding anything before entering...Weird edition with some odd fonts, but well-made and overall quite satisfactory. Long may it remain in print (but get it now to be safe.)

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    BUY THIS BOOK.
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2016*

LOVE LOVE LOVEFor anyone with an interest in Russian literature, this book is a must-have!

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    A book quite out of the ordinary
  

*by Z***. on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2013*

In my estimation, the tags for this book are far too narrow to convey the appeal the book should have to readers of almost every ilk.  It is biography, historical drama, poignant love story, book of poetry, and study of a cultural moment, all rolled into one.  It can be read as individual poems, conversations, and vignettes, but when read from start to finish has the arc of a novel.  The translators have written a compelling introduction - itself worth the price of admission - that provides readers entre into Kharms' world even if they've never before heard his name, and know nothing about avant-garde literature or the history of Russia in the 20th Century.  The translators have also included a chronology, extensive commentary, and a glossary of names, places, and more, making this book valuable to scholars, but accessible to a general readership.  (These sections have been thoughtfully placed at the end where they don't interrupt the flow of Kharms' own words.)As for Kharms' own words, they are entertaining in the fullest and best sense of the word. An elderly Russian man I met at a reading of "I am a phenomenon" told me he loved Kharms in the original Russian and had believed it was not possible to translate his writings - particularly his poetry - into English without losing the humor, the puns, the rhythm, rhyme, fluidity, and soundplay of Kharms' language.  Reading "I am a phenomenon" changed his mind;  he said (literally, with tears in his eyes) the translators had captured Kharms perfectly.  Being neither a Russian-speaker nor a Kharms scholar, I can only say that Kharms' writing, as expressed in this translation, speaks in full, buoyant, and appealing voice and leaves a marked impression of the man and his times.I unreservedly recommend this book.

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