Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
10 best books like Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings (Daniil Kharms): The Twelve Chairs, Ducks, Newburyport, Envy, Moscow to the End of the Line, The Collected Poems, Selected Poems, Against Nature, Omon Ra, The Petty Demon, Soul
| Author | Ilya Ilf |
| ISBN | 0810114844 |
Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by...
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of “happy couples”, Weapons of...
| Author | Yury Olesha |
| ISBN | 1590170865 |
One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha's novella brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a model Soviet citizen, a swaggeringly self-satisfied mogul of...
| Author | Venedikt Erofeev |
| ISBN | 0810112000 |
Maybe the best book about Brezhnev's Russia imaginable. If you are the kind of person who has ever got drunk with friends, stormed a police station and then declared war on Norway then you will find much here that is familiar.
It's a book rich in allusion starting from the title (Moscow to Petushki)...
| Author | Sergei Yesenin |
| ISBN | 0970580304 |
"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."
Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.
Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions,...
| Author | Alexander Blok |
| ISBN | 1857544730 |
Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.' Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind.'.
| Author | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
| ISBN | 0140447636 |
With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0811213641 |
Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: "full of the ridiculous and the sublime," says The Observer [London]. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong...
| Author | Fyodor Sologub |
| ISBN | 0882338080 |
The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels. It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. The main hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting, he is at once a victim, a monster, a silly...
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The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0393324230 |
One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland,...
| Author | Ivan Bunin |
| ISBN | 5352002373 |
Когда-то давно, ещё в школе, наша заботливая учительница литературы выбрала на свой вкус пару рассказов Бунина, и я точно помню, что они были из сборника...
| Author | Sergei Dovlatov |
| ISBN | 0897333535 |
A very different read than my usual book. This is a collection of newspaper articles written in Estonia during the late 1970s, each followed by a longer description, often satirical (intended? or otherwise) which provides the true background of the articles. Through this the reader sees a sample of...
| Author | Alfred Jarry |
| ISBN | 0802150101 |
"Merdre!" (in translation: "Pschitt!")The very first word uttered by Pa Ubu proved to be a bit too much for the sensibility of its audience and led to a riot. The incident has since then become one of the most talked about bits of Jarry's life.
The audience may not have taken their time to get to...
