Despre (ne)fericire în avangarda rusă. Versiunea lui Daniil Harms
About (un)happiness in the Russian avant-garde. Daniil Kharms's vision

Summary/Abstract: Happiness: such is the purported topic of the present study of the avant-garde Russian artist Daniil Kharms. Through analysis of stories and scenes, journal notes and children’s books this seemingly unexpected motif in Kharms’s work will be explored. Indeed, Kharms being Kharms, happiness is conceived of ironically through its opposite: unhappiness, bad luck, botches, bungles and screw-ups. Kharms came to personal and artistic maturity during the Stalinist period. Thus, he lived in and through a Leningrad dingy and devastated by a very somber social reality (starvation, poverty, fear of denunciation, retaliation), all against the backdrop of the absurdity of Soviet society. In this context Kharms poses the problem of happiness, using the comic, the grotesque and the ludic.

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