Daniil Kharms

English translations

• About Daniil Kharms
• Incidences
• Selected prose
• The Old Woman
  The Old Woman (another home-made translation)

  First poem from The Zdagger Upper Story (Russian original)

  A song (Russian original)

  A romance (Russian original)

  A letter to T. A. Meyer-Lipavsky("Dear Tamara Aleksandrovna, Valentina Efimovna, Leonid Savelyevich...") (Russian original)

  The Fall of the Stem (πΑΔΕΞΙΕ ΣΤΧΟΜΑ) (for adults only - contains mathem*tical f*rmulae! :-)
  The Russian original (KOI-8) is also available in Windows ANSI encoding.
  Also available in gzipped PostScript format: --+[In Russian]+- -+[In English]+--

  How I Was Visited By Messengers ("Something clicked in the clock on the wall...") (August 22, 1937)

  DLROW ("For a while I was convinced that I saw the world...")

  The Thing ("A mom, a dad, and the maid named Natasha, were sitting at the table...") (31 May 1929)

  A man left his house ("A man left his house...")

  A Tale ("Sushkin, 1994) "Here,-- said Vanya, putting his notebook on the desk...") (1935)

  Excerpt from a biography of Daniil Charms, by Vladimir Glotser ("Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev (1905 -- 1942) invented a pen name "Charms" for...")