Imitatori ai lui Daniil Harms în underground-ul literar sovietic („Băieții veseli”)
Imitators of Daniil Kharms in the Soviet Literary Underground ("Funny Guys”)

Summary/Abstract: The present study analyzes the literary anecdotes of the artists N. Dobrokhotova and Vladimir Piatnitski collected in the volume Funny Guys (1970s). This volume written in the avant- garde style of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) is a collection of anecdotes organized as a series of brief narratives designed as parodies of the most representative figures of classical Russian literature: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, among others. Of interest are the techniques the two artists pilfer from Kharms’s own parodic arsenal: drollery, the grotesque, buffoonery, caricature, nonsense, tit for tat and so forth. Funny Guys circulated in secret during the Soviet period and demonstrates the importance of Kharms’s work in the Russian-language literary underground.

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