I am a genius of fiery speeches... Harms D.

“I am a genius of fiery speeches. I am a lord of free thoughts. I am the king of meaningless beauties. " So Daniil Harms wrote about himself, perhaps the most unusual Russian poet and writer of the twentieth century. His poems, stories, plays are able to surprise, amaze, delight and confusion. Who is he, the mysterious Daniil Harms, is a naive genius, a master of shocking or a crafty hoax, carefully hiding his, as Marshak wrote, “a classic basis”? Harms' work is still one of the most striking and complex mysteries of Russian literature. The most famous poetic works of Daniil Harms were included in the present publication.