Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd [Paperback]

These bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of todays absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before in any language.The Russian literary heritage of the 1920s and 1930s continues to grow as significant works are uncovered that were long forgotten or never published. The most recent find is not a single work or author, but an entire literary movementthe Oberiu. . . . Professor Gibians book is most welcome . . .