Даниил Хармс. Застрявший в небесах

Novai͡a kniga Maksima Gureeva 'Daniil Kharms. Zastri͡avshiĭ v nebesakh' - ėto tvorcheski pereosmyslennai͡a biografii͡a Daniila Kharmsa, lichnosti unikalʹnoĭ i tragicheskoĭ, 'chinari͡a', obėriuta, detskogo poėta i pisateli͡a. V neĭ avtor, rassmatrivai͡a samye vazhnye ėtapy zhizni i tvorchestva Kharmsa, otkryvaet nam ego lichnostʹ cherez pisʹma, vospominanii͡a, vozmozhnye dialogi i, konechno zhe, stikhi samogo Daniila Kharmsa, ego avtografy, risunki, fotografii s nim i ego sovremennikami.'Kharms v kont͡se tridt͡satykh godov govoril, chto glavnym dli͡a nego vsegda bylo ne iskusstvo, a zhiznʹ: sdelatʹ svoi͡u zhiznʹ kak iskusstvo. Ėto ne ėstetizm: „tvorenie zhizni kak iskusstva" dli͡a Kharmsa bylo kategorieĭ ne ėsteticheskogo pori͡adka, a, kak seĭchas govori͡at, ėkzistent͡sialʹnogo...'

A new book by Maxim Gureev 'Daniil Kharms. Stuck in Heaven' is a creatively reinterpreted biography of Daniil Kharms, a unique and tragic personality, a 'chinar', an oberiut, a children's poet and writer. In it, the author, considering the most important stages of Kharms' life and work, reveals his personality to us through letters, memoirs, possible dialogues and, of course, poems by Daniil Kharms himself, his autographs, drawings, photographs with him and his contemporaries."Kharms in the late thirties said that the main thing for him was always not art, but life: to make his life like art. This is not aestheticism: "the creation of life as art" for Kharms was not a category of aesthetic order, but, as they say now, existential...'