Daniil Harms. Shubinsky V.I.

Daniil Harms (Yuvachev; 1905–1942) is one of the key figures of the domestic literature of the last century, the largest representative of the Russian and world avant-garde of the 1920s-1930s, a famous children's writer, a person, whose appearance and lifestyle gave birth to legends and jokes. The biography of D. Harms is written on the basis of his own diaries and records, the memoirs of people close to him, as well as archival materials and contains a number of new facts regarding the writer and his family.

The heroes of the book became the associates of Harms according to Oberiu (“Association of Real Art”) - Alexander Vvedensky, Nikolai Oleinikov and Nikolai Zabolotsky and his intellectual interlocutors - philosophers Yakov Druskin and Leonid Lipavsky. Among more than two hundred illustrations are the reproduction of drawings, photographs of Harms and his contemporaries. Valery Shubinsky published many unique documents for the first time.