num_pages: 258
description: This book brings together works by two of the outstanding talents of Soviet literature, Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. It discloses a little-known tradition of absurdism that persisted during the Stalinist period, a testimony to both the hardiness of the Russian imagination in the face of socialist realism and the vitality of an important cultural and literary tradition.
language: English
title: The Man in the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd
titlecomplete: The Man in the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd
genres: Short Stories, Poetry, Surreal, Anthologies, Humor, Literature, Russian Literature, Art, Russia
ratings_count: 313
publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr