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Reading Daniil Kharms

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Dana Margolin
Jan 23, 2024
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I didn’t want to write a post this week. I’ve been reading a book called Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms. Kharms was an avant gardist Russian writer, born in 1905 in St Petersburg. He was writing at a time of great political unrest, and although his stories, poems and plays could be read in such a context as primarily politically motivated - in f…

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