Daniil Harms

Daniil Harms , Russian ДаниилХармс, (December 30th 1905 - February 2nd 1942) is a poet satirist of the beginning of the Soviet era considered as a precursor of the Absurde. Of its true name Daniil Ivanovitch Iouvatchev (ДаниилИвановичЮвачев), it chooses the pseudonym of Harms during its secondary studies. It also used the pseudonyms of Horms, Charms, Chardam, etc

Its work is primarily made up short labels, making often only some paragraphs, where alternate scenes of poverty or deprivations, scenes Fantastique S sometimes resembling descriptions of dreams, and scenes comic. In these labels, known writers make sometimes incongruous appearances.

The world of Harms is unforeseeable and disordered, its characters repeating without end the same actions or behaving in an irrational way, linear stories starting to develop being brutally stopped by catastrophes inexpliquables which make them rebound in completely unexpected directions.

The work of Harms is deeper than it does not appear to with it and must be replaced in the context of the Obériou ( Association of real Art ), a literary and philosophical current of the Russian Modernisme of which it formed part.

Harms was little known of alive sound, the essence of its work being published clandestinely. He was shown anti-Soviet activities and had to spend one year in prison to Koursk. Shown to be a defaitist, it was stopped again during the seat of Leningrad in 1941 and died in prison in 1942.

Works

Works in prose and worms , Verdier, 2005, ISBN 2864324377
the Old woman , ED. of Saint Mount, 2002, ISBN 2847550070
Daniil Harms, Written , Christian Bourgois Editor, 1993, ISBN 2267010712

Influence

As from the Seventies, several texts for children of Harms were put in music and often heard at the radio.

the pianist jazz Russo-American Simon Nabatov left CD arrangements of texts of Harms entitled has Few Incidences (with the singer Phil Minton).

the Québécois writer David Leblanc, which already translated and published some texts of Daniil Harms in French, took as a starting point the epistolary style of Harms to write the words of a song entitled " Harms in memoriam" on the first album of its group Joe Jack Wagner, The Only Non-Classical Album You' L Ever Need (2007).

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