Abstract
The long tale Starukha (‘The Old Woman’), which Kharms wrote in mid-1939, represents probably the highest expression of his prose writing. In fact it is here that the concise, incisive motifs of the Sluchai (‘Happenings’) collection of mini-stories reappear in a plot of far greater complexity.
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Giaquinta, R. (1991). Elements of the Fantastic in Daniil Kharms’s Starukha. In: Cornwell, N. (eds) Daniil Kharms and the Poetics of the Absurd. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11642-3_8
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