Kharms, Daniil Ivanovich

The early years

Daniil Yuvachev was born December 17 (30), 1905 (Daniil Ivanovich himself considered his birthday January 1 ^[6] ) in St. Petersburg in the family of Ivan Pavlovich Yuvachev (1860-1940) and Nadezhda Ivanovna Yuvacheva (Kolyubakina) (1869-1929 ) I.P. Yuvachev was a revolutionary volunteer , exiled to Sakhalin and became a spiritual writer. Harms's father was familiar with A. P. Chekhov , L. N. Tolstoy , M. A. Voloshin and N. A. Morozov ^[7] .

In 1915-1918 (according to other sources, in 1917-1918 ^[8] ), Daniil Yuvachev studied at the secondary school (die Realschule), which was part of the Main German School of St. Peter ( Petrishule ), in 1922-1924 - in 2- the first Detskoselskoye unified labor school, since 1924 - at the First Leningrad Electrotechnical College (today - St. Petersburg Power Engineering College ^[9] ) (expelled in February 1926 ) ^[10] .

The beginning of literary activity

Around 1921-1922, Daniil Yuvachev chose the nickname "Harms" for himself. Researchers have put forward several versions of its origin, finding sources in English , German , French , Hebrew , Sanskrit ^[11] . It should be noted that in the manuscripts of the writer there are about forty pseudonyms (Kharms, Haarms, Dandan, Charms, Karl Ivanovich Shusterling and others) ^[12] . When applying for entry into the All-Russian Union of Poets on October 9, 1925, Harms answers the following questions:

In 1924-1926, Harms began to participate in the literary life of Leningrad: he appeared with the reading of his own and others' poems in various halls, and entered the DSO Order of the Wizards , organized by Alexander Tufanov . In March 1926 he became a member of the Leningrad branch of the All-Russian Union of Poets (expelled for non-payment of membership fees in March 1929 ) ^[10] . For this period, Kharms’s appeal to “ abstruse ” creativity, which was influenced by the works of Velimir Khlebnikov , Alexei Krucheny , Alexander Tufanov, Kazimir Malevich , is characteristic.

In 1925, Harms met with participants in the poetry and philosophical circle of the “ plane trees ”, which included Alexander Vvedensky , Leonid Lipavsky , Jacob Druskin and others. Since 1926, Harms has been actively trying to unite the forces of the "left" writers and artists of Leningrad. In 1926-1927 he organized several literary associations ("Left Flank", "Academy of Left Classics"). In the fall of 1927, a group of writers led by Kharms received the final name - OBERIU (“Association of Real Art”). OBERIU included Daniil Harms, Alexander Vvedensky, Nikolai Zabolotsky , Konstantin Vaginov , Igor Bakhterev , Boris (Doivber) Levin , Klimenty Mints and others. The brightest page of OBERIU's existence was the evening “ Three Left Hours ”, held on January 24, 1928 . At this theatrical performance, the Oberiuts read their works, and Harms' play “ Elizabeth Bam ” was staged ^[10] .

Children's Literature

At the end of 1927, Samuel Marshak , Nikolai Oleinikov and Boris Zhitkov attracted OBERIU members to work in children's literature . From the late 1920s to the end of the 1930s, Kharms actively collaborated with the children's magazines Hedgehog , Chizh , Cricket , and October, where his poems , stories , figure captions, comic advertisements, and puzzles were published ^{[14 ]} . Unlike, for example, Alexander Vvedensky, Kharms very responsibly approached the work in children's literature, which was for him a constant and almost the only source of income . As the researcher of the Russian avant-garde , friend of the Oberiuts N. I. Khardzhiev , noted

Vvedensky hacked in children's literature: he wrote terrible books, there were very few good ones ... And Harms, it seems, wrote only six children's books and very good ones - he did not like this, but could not write badly ^[15] .

In the period from 1928 to 1931, 9 illustrated books of poems and short stories for children were published - “Mischievous traffic jam” (forbidden by censorship from 1951 to 1961 ^[16] ), “About how Kolka Pankin flew to Brazil, and Petka Ershov He didn’t believe anything ”,“ Theater ”,“ First and secondly ”,“ Ivan Ivanovitch Samovar ”,“ About how the old woman bought ink ”(classified as one of the books“ not recommended for mass libraries ” ^[16] ), “Game”, “About how dad shot me a ferret”, “Million”. In 1937, the book of William Bush “Plikh and Plukh” was published by Harms. In 1940, Kharms' book, The Fox and the Hare, was published, and in 1944 a poem, The Amazing Cat, was released as a separate publication, but anonymously ^[16] . Also, during the writer's life, there were separate editions of the poem “Funny Siskins” written with S. Marshak and the book “ Stories in Pictures ”, the text of which was written by Harms, Nina Gernet and Natalya Dilaktorskaya .

First Arrest

In December 1931, Harms, Vvedensky, Bakhterev were arrested on charges of participation in the "anti-Soviet group of writers", and the reason for the arrest was their work in children's literature, and not the noisy shocking speeches of the Oberiuts. Harms was sentenced by the OGPU board to three years in correctional camps on March 21, 1932 (the term “ concentration camp ” is used in the sentence) ^[17] . As a result, on May 23, 1932, the verdict was commuted to expulsion (“minus 12”), and the poet went to Kursk , where Alexander Vvedensky, the deportee, was already there.

Harms arrived in Kursk on July 13, 1932 and settled in house No. 16 on Pervyshevskaya Street (now Ufimtseva Street). Harms returned to Leningrad on October 12, 1932. ^[10]

1930s

After returning from exile in Harms' life, a new period begins: the public performances of OBERIU cease, the number of children's books published by the writer decreases, his financial situation becomes very difficult. In the work of Harms, a transition from poetry to prose is planned. J.-F. Jacquard identified two major periods in the writer's work, separated by a deep worldview crisis of 1932-1933: the first period (1925 - early 1930s) - metaphysical and poetic, associated with the utopian project of creating the world using a poetic word, the second (1933-1941 years) - prosaic, expressing the failure of the metaphysical project, the decay of the image of the world and the literary language itself ^[18] .

Realizing that he will not be able to publish anything but works for children, Harms nevertheless does not stop writing. In the 1930s, he creates his main works - a series of short stories “ Cases ”, the story “The Old Woman ”, as well as a huge number of small stories , poems, sketches in prose and poetry.

In the summer of 1934, Harms married Marina Malich. He continues to communicate with Alexander Vvedensky, Leonid Lipavsky, Yakov Druskin, together with whom he makes up a friendly circle of “plane trees”. They met several times a month to discuss recently written works, various philosophical questions ^[19] . You can get an idea of ​​these meetings from Leonid Lipavsky’s “Conversations,” which is a record of the conversations of D. Kharms, A. Vvedensky, N. Oleinikov, J. Druskin, T. Meyer, L. Lipavsky in the mid-1930s ^[20] . In the late 1930s, Harms was also friends with the young art historian and novice writer Vsevolod Petrov , who in his memoirs calls himself “Harms' last friend”.

Second Arrest and Death

On August 23, 1941, Harms was arrested for spreading "slanderous and defeatist sentiments" in his entourage. The arrest warrant contains the words of Kharms, which, according to A. Kobrinsky ^[21] , were copied from the text of the denunciation:

The Soviet Union lost the war on the very first day, Leningrad will now either be besieged or die starvation, or bombed without leaving a stone unturned ... If they give me a mobilization leaflet, I will give the commander in the face, let me be shot; but I won’t wear a uniform [sic] and I won’t serve in the Soviet troops, I don’t want to be such shit. If I am forced to shoot a machine gun from attics during street battles with the Germans, then I will not shoot at the Germans, but at them from the same machine gun.

- ^[22]

Kharms’s premonitions are also evidenced by his words quoted in the blockade diary of the artist and poet Pavel Zaltsman :

One of the first days I accidentally met at Glebova’s with Harms. He was in breeches, with a thick stick. They sat with his wife, his wife was young and not bad by herself. There were no worries yet, but, knowing well the fate of Amsterdam ^[23] , we imagined everything that would be possible. He said that he expected and knew about the day the war began and that he agreed with his wife that, according to his well-known telegraphic word, she should leave for Moscow. Something changed their plans, and he, not wanting to part with her, came to Leningrad. When leaving, he determined his expectations: this was what haunted everyone: "We will crawl without legs, holding onto the burning walls." Some of us, maybe his wife, or maybe I, laughing, noticed that it’s enough to lose legs so that it’s bad to crawl, clutching at entire walls. Or burn with uncut legs. When we shook hands, he said: "May God give, we will see each other." I carefully listened to all these confirmations of common thoughts and mine too.

- ^[24]

To avoid being shot, the writer feigned insanity ; the military tribunal determined “by the gravity of the crime committed” to keep Harms in a psychiatric hospital. Daniil Kharms died on February 2, 1942 during the siege of Leningrad , during the hardest month for the number of starvation deaths, in the psychiatry department of the Kresty prison hospital (St. Petersburg, Arsenalnaya street , 9).

Harms' wife, Marina Malich, was initially falsely informed that he had been taken to Novosibirsk ^[26] .

On July 25, 1960, at the request of Harms' sister E. I. Gritsina, the Prosecutor General's Office found him not guilty and he was rehabilitated ^[27] . The most likely burial place is Piskaryovskoye Cemetery ^[28] .

Personal life

• March 5, 1928 Harms married Esther Alexandrovna Rusakova (nee Ioselevich; 1909-1943), who was born in Marseilles in the family of an emigrant from Taganrog A. I. Ioselevich. She is devoted to many works of the writer, written from 1925 to 1932, as well as numerous diary entries testifying to their difficult relationship. In 1932, they divorced .
  Esther Rusakova was arrested with her family in 1936 on charges of Trotskyist sympathies and sentenced to 5 years in camps in Kolyma ^[29] , where she died in 1938 (according to official sources, she died in 1943) ^[30] . Her brother, condemned simultaneously with her, is the composer Paul Marcel (Pavel Rusakov-Ioselevich; 1908-1973), the author of the pop hit "Friendship" ( When with a simple and gentle look ... , 1934) to the words of Andrei Shmulian , included in the repertoire of Vadim Kozin and Claudia Shulzhenko . Her sister Bluma Ioselevich (Lyubov Rusakova) became the wife of the revolutionary Viktor Kibalchich .
• July 16, 1934 Harms married Marina Vladimirovna Malich (1909 or 1912-2002), with whom he lived until his arrest in 1941. The writer also devoted a number of works to his second wife. After the death of Harms, Marina Malich was evacuated from Leningrad to the Caucasus , where she fell under German occupation and was taken to Germany as an ostarbeiter ; After the end of World War II, she lived in Germany , France , Venezuela , and the USA ^[31] . In the mid-1990s, the literary critic V. Glotser tracked down M. Malich and wrote down her memoirs, which appeared in the form of a book ^[32] .

Daniel Harms Archive

Unlike the archives of Vvedensky, Oleinikov (only partially preserved), the Harms archive was preserved. The archive was saved thanks to the efforts of Jacob Druskin , who in 1942, together with Marina Malich, packed the manuscripts in a suitcase and carried them out of the writer’s house, which was damaged by the bombing. V. Glotser described the writer's archive as follows:

Since 1928, D. Harms ... does not even retype his manuscripts - as unnecessary. And since then, all of his manuscripts ... are, in the full sense of the word, manuscripts, autographs. Harms wrote either on separate sheets and pieces of paper (smooth, or torn from a ledger or from a notebook, or copybook, or on the back of cemetery forms, accounts of the “laundry establishment”, tables of fasteners and pin screws, the back of printed notes, pages from the employee’s notebook the journal “Hygiene and Health of the Worker and Peasant Family”, etc.), or - in notebooks (school or general), in ledgers, in notebooks, and very rarely - in various kinds of home-made books (“Blue Notebook”, etc.) ^{[ 33]} .

Yakov Druskin transferred the bulk of the archive to the Handwritten Department of the State Public Library named after M. E. Saltykova-Shchedrina (now the Russian National Library , F. 1232), the other part went to the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature ( Pushkin House ).

Lifetime editions

During the life of Harms, only two of his "adult" poems were published. The first publication took place in 1926, after Harms joined the Union of Poets: in the almanac of the Union was published the poem "Chinar-vizilnik (incident on the railway)." In 1927, in the almanac "Bonfire" was published "Verse of Peter-Yashkin-Communist." The word "Communist" from the name was ejected by censorship ^[34] . A number of projects for the publication of collections of works of the Oberiuts have not been implemented ^[35] .

Works for children were published in children's magazines and came out in separate editions.

Publications of the 1960s and 2000s

In 1965, in the Leningrad issue of the collection “Poetry Day”, two Harms poems were published, which marked the beginning of the publication of “adult” Harms' works in the USSR and abroad. Since the late 1960s, some of the "adult" works of Kharms have been published in the periodical press of the USSR, which are presented as humorous ^[35] . So, for example, in the collection “Club of 12 Chairs” (works published on the humorous page of the literary newspaper of the same name ) Harms's stories “Tale”, “Tyuk” and “Jokes from Pushkin's Life” were printed. Publications are preceded by a foreword by Viktor Shklovsky “On color dreams. A Word About Daniel Harms. " ^[36]

Much more texts of Kharms and other Oberiuts begin to turn in samizdat during this period. Separate editions of the writer's works first appeared abroad in the 1970s. In 1974, American Slavicist George Gibian prepared the book Daniel Harms. Favorite ", which contained stories, poems, the story" The Old Woman ", the play" Elizabeth Bam ", as well as works for children. Another publication was undertaken by Mikhail Meilakh and Vladimir Erl , having released four volumes of the “Collection of Works” from nine of which were conceived in 1978-1988 in Bremen .

The first Soviet edition of the "adult" works "Flight to Heaven" was released only in 1988 in the publishing house " Soviet writer ". The most complete publication at the moment is the six-volume Complete Works, which was published in the second half of the 1990s by the Academic Project publishing house. Currently, the repertoire of several publishers constantly contains collections and collected works of Harms, which are reprinted from year to year ^[35] .

The processes of understanding the work of Kharms and its influence on Russian literature, both on unofficial Soviet times, and on subsequent Russian, begin only in the last third of the XX century. After the former members of the Leningrad literary group " Helenucts " gain access to the heritage of Kharms and other Oberiuts, the poetry of OBERIU in one way or another influences the work of Alexei Khvostenko , Vladimir Erl , as well as Henry Volokhonsky , who was not a member to the group.

Despite the fact that Harms was practically not considered from the perspective of a postmodern reading, researchers trace the influence of Harms on Russian rock ( Boris Grebenshchikov , Anatoly Gunitsky , Vyacheslav Butusov , NOM , Umka and Bronevik ), on a modern Russian fairy tale ( Yuri Koval ), Russian literary postmodernism ( Victor Pelevin ^[37] ), film dramaturgy ( Epitaph of the gypsum pioneer in the style of Daniil Kharms ), they still have to study the influence that Harms' work had on modern literature and art.

On December 22, 2005, in St. Petersburg, at 11 Mayakovsky Street , in which Kharms lived, a memorial plaque by Vyacheslav Bukhayev was opened by the centenary of the writer. The composition consists of a marble relief portrait, a shelf for flowers and a prison still life ; a line from Harms’s poem “A Man Out of the House” was knocked out on the board; the inscription reads: "The writer Daniil Harms lived here in 1925-1941" ^[38] .

Dan Haril’s name is Harms asteroid (6766) , discovered by astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory on October 20, 1982, street in the Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg ^[39] , a prize in the field of literature and art ^[40] .

• Harms is mistakenly credited with the authorship of the series “Jolly Fellows” (“Once Gogol changed into Pushkin ...”), created in the 1970s by the Pioneer magazine in imitation of Kharms (he really owns a number of parody miniatures about Pushkin and Gogol ) ^{[41 ]} . The appearance of literary anecdotes of pseudo-Harms coincided with the 150th birthday of F. M. Dostoevsky , whose name appears in 16 anecdotes, and the book was published in 1998 ^[42] . (See Jokes Attributed to Harms )
• The first dissertation on oberiuts and Kharms in the USSR (“The problem of the ridiculous in the work of oberiuts”) was written by Anna Gerasimova (Umka), sometimes speaking in public reading his stories

Selected Publications ^[43]

• Harms D. Collected Works: Prince. 1-4 / Edited by M. Meilach and Vl. Earl . - Bremen: K-Presse, 1978-1988.
• Harms D. Flight to Heaven: Poems. Prose. Dramas. Letters / Introductory article, compilation, preparation of the text and notes by A. A. Alexandrov ; Artist L. Yatsenko . - L .: Soviet writer , 1988 .-- 558 p. - (Legacy). - 50,000 copies.
• Harms D. Old Woman: Stories. Scenes The Story / Compiled by V. Glotser ; Artist L. Tishkov . - M .: Juno, 1991 .-- 126 p. - 125,000 copies.
• Harms D. I am called Capuchin. Some works of Daniil Ivanovich Kharms / Artists G. Muryshkin, S. Georgiev, M. Muryshkin; Compilation and preparation of texts by A. Gerasimov . - M .: Caravento, Pickment, 1993 .-- 352 p.
• "To me an amateur, all the achievements of these directors seem to be squalor." From Harms notebooks / Publication, introductory article and comments by Yu. Girba // Mnemozin. Documents and facts from the history of Russian theater of the XX century / Editor-compiler V.V. Ivanov. - M .: GITIS , 1996. - S. 111-123 .
• Harms D. Complete works: In 3 volumes / Under the general editorship of V. N. Sazhin . - SPb. : Academic project , 1997. - 5000 copies.
• Harms D. Complete Works. T. 4. Unreleased D. Harms. Treatises and articles. Letters. Supplements to t. 1-3 / Compilation and notes by V. N. Sazhin . - SPb. : Academic project , 2001. - 319 p. - 3500 copies.
• Harms D. Complete Works. Notebooks. Diary: In 2 books / Preparation of the text by J.-F. Jacquard and V. N. Sazhin . - SPb. : Academic project , 2002. - 3000 copies.
• Harms D. Circus Shardam: Compilation / Compilation, preparation of the text, foreword, notes and general wording of V. N. Sazhin . - SPb. : Crystal, 1999. - ( Library of World Literature ). - 10,000 copies.
• Harms D. Days of Katybras: Selected Poems. Poems. Dramatic works / Compilation, introductory article and notes by M. Maylakh; Preparation of the text by M. Meylakh and Vl. Earl ; Preparation of the text "Elizabeth Bam" Vl. Earl. - M .: Cayenne, Gilea , 1999 .-- 638 p. - (Government of poets). - 3000 copies.
• Harms D. Daniel Harms: Compilation / Introductory article by V. Glotzer . - M .: Eksmo , 2003 .-- 493 p. - (Anthology of satire and humor of Russia of the XX century; T. 23). - 10,000 copies.
• Harms D. Small Collected Works / Compilation, introductory article and commentary by V. Sazhin . - SPb. : ABC classic , 2003 .-- 863 p. - (ABC classic). - 7000 copies.
• Harms D. Cases and Things / Compilation and notes by A. Dmitrenko and V. Earl ; Preparation of texts by W. Earl; Illustrations by Yu. Shtapakov. - SPb. : Vita Nova , 2004 .-- 494 p. - (Manuscripts). - 1,500 copies
• Harms D. Figures of time. Anniversary Harms calendar: To the 100th anniversary of the birth of Daniil Kharms (1905-2005) / Compiler of copyright texts, quotes and fragments of diaries with the provision of photographs and books of the writer Valery Sazhin . - M .: Aircraft , 2005 .-- 368 p.
• Harms D. About women and about themselves: Diary entries, poems, prose. - M .: Alta-Print, 2006 .-- 319 p. - (Phallosophical monuments). - 5,000 copies.
• Harms Drawings / Compiled by Yu. S. Alexandrov. - SPb. : Ivan Limbach Publishing House , 2006. - 336 p.
• Harms D. Poems. Dramatic works / Introductory article, compilation, preparation of the text and notes by V. N. Sazhin . - SPb. : Academic project , DNA, 2007. - 440 p. - ( New library of the poet . Small series). - 1000 copies.

Harms Films

• 1930 - Mail , director Mikhail Tsekhanovsky - a cartoon based on a poem by S. Marshak , sound version. D. Harms - Author, Conference

Screen versions of works

• 1972 - " Merry-Go-Round " issue number 4 " Merry Old Man " - Soviet short hand-drawn cartoon created by director Anatoly Petrov . The third of the three plots of the animated almanac.
• 1981 - “One Morning” (cartoon), directed by Inessa Kovalevskaya
• 1984 - “ Pluh and Plikh ”, a puppet cartoon based on the book of Wilhelm Bush “Plikh and Pluch” translated by Harms, directed by Nathan Lerner
• 1985 - “Peremenka No. 4”, animated film: plot of “The Liar”, directed by Alexei Turkus
• 1987 - The Harms Case , a surrealistic film parade directed by Slobodan Pesic
• 1987 - " Samovar Ivan Ivanovich ", a cartoon based on Harms poems for children
• 1989 - “ Clowning ”, the tragicomedy of the absurd based on the works of Harms, director Dmitry Frolov
• 1989 - " Journey ", a cartoon based on the story for children "First and Second"
• 1990 - “ Case ”, a cartoon based on three miniatures by D. Harms on the themes of urban life of the 1930s, directed by Alexei Turkus
• 1990 - " Bitch!" ", A cartoon of the creative association" Screen " based on the stories of M. Zoshchenko and D. Harms
• 1990 - " Merry-Go-Round " issue No. 21 " Once " -. The second of two plots of the animated almanac.
• 1991 - “ Old-ha-rmsa ”, film adaptation of the novel “The Old Woman”, directed by Vadim Gems
• 1991 - “ Fairy Tale ”, film adaptation of the eponymous work, Soyuzmultfilm studio
• 1995 - “ Concert for the Rat ”, a film in the genre of political absurdity based on the works of Harms, director Oleg Kovalov
• 1996 - “Charms Zwischenfälle” (Harms Cases), a film by Austrian director Michael Kreisl based on the story “The Old Woman”, stories and biography of Harms.
• 1999 - “The Fall” , an amateur film in the genre of an absurd detective based on the story “The Old Woman”, directed by Nikolay Kovalev, leader of the Safe
• 1999 - “ Pád ” (The Fall), a short Czech-Canadian cartoon that received several international awards, directed by Aurel Klimt
• 2002 - "Dangerous Walk" (cartoon)
• 2007 - “ Janitor on the Moon ”, (cartoon) based on Harms poem “The Persistence of Fun and Dirt” ^{[44] [45]}
• 2009 - “A play for a man ”, solo performance based on Harms' works, director Vladimir Mirzoev
• 2010 - Harmonium , a cartoon based on Harms
• 2010 - “Hindrance” , a short film based on the story of the same name, directed by Maxim Buinitsky
• 2011 - “Malgil”, ( 1 , 2 ), a short film by Yaroslav Ivanov and Dmitry Fetisov based on the works of Kharms
• 2013 - “Out of the window. Stories from the life of Harms "(cartoon).

Harms Movies

• 1989 - “ Passion for Harms ”, documentary television movie (director L. Kostrichkin)
• 2006 - “ Three left hours. Harms. Another line ”, a documentary film (directed by Varvara Urizchenko)
• 2007 - “Falling to Heaven", a feature film (director Natalya Mitroshina)
• 2008 - “Manuscripts do not burn ... Film 2nd. “The Case of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky” ”, documentary (director Sergei Golovetsky)
• 2013 - “Out of the window. Stories from the life of Kharms ”, animated (director Mikhail Safronov)
• 2015 - Ogurets, ou les turpitudes d'un concombre russe , short film (director Eric Bu / Eric Bu)
• 2017 - Harms full-length feature film (director Ivan Bolotnikov)

• “The Legend of Tobacco” - a song by Alexander Galich , dedicated to Daniil Harms, 1969.
• “Three choirs to the verses of Daniil Kharms” - Victor Suslin ’s cycle for a female choir and a reader girl (“Tiger on the street”, “Cats”, “Patter”), 1972.
• The Blue Notebook is a work by Edison Denisov for soprano, reader, violin, cello, two pianos and three groups of bells to verses by Alexander Vvedensky and texts of Daniil Kharms (in 10 parts, 1984). The premiere took place on April 11, 1985 in Rostov-on-Don, the soloist - Elena Komarova.
• “Love and Life of a Poet” - Leonid Desyatnikov’s vocal cycle to verses by Daniil Kharms and Nikolai Oleinikov, 1989 ^[46] .
• “Harms-10 - cases” - album of the free-jazz ensemble “ Orchestra of Moscow Composers ” (all lyrics belong to Harms), 1998.
• The Heralds album, the Snake Paradise musical project - numbers from Kharms' prose texts shown during the celebration of the centenary of the writer in Belgrade, 2005.
• Harms FM is a collection of Harms' works in the musical interpretation of the Other Creative community with the participation of Vyacheslav Butusov , 2008.
• Guidon - Alexander Manotskov ’s choral opera based on the play Guidon and other verses by Daniil Kharms, 2009.
• “How Volodya flew quickly downhill” - a work by Irina Alekseychuk for the mixed a'cappella choir to verses by Daniil Kharms.
• “Harms Alive” - a vocal cycle to the texts of literary jokes by Daniil Kharms performed by the “Krylov Quartet” ( Pakava It creative association).
• “Janitor” is a song by Otawa E folk group to the verses of Daniil Harms, 2012.
• “Pseudo Matrix Named after Cruel Romance”, “Name Day of Daniil Ivanovich Harms” - two songs from Cyber ​​Ra's album “Name Day of Harms”, 2013.
• “The Constancy of Fun and Dirt” is a joint album of Leonid Fedorov and the group “Kruzenshtern and Steamboat” to the verses of Daniil Kharms, 2018. [one]

Theatre of Drama

• “Sinfonia No. 2” - a performance by the Lusores Theater, directed by Alexander Savchuk.
• “Harms! Charms! Shardam! ”- The Hermitage Theater, Moscow. Premiere: 04/21/1982
• "Elizabeth Bam" - a play directed by Fyodor Sukhov based on the play of the same name by Daniil Kharms. The premiere took place at the Theater on the Embankment on March 22, 1989 (March 22, 2009 - renewal).

  * White sheep

Performance-spell dedicated to Oleg Nikolaevich Efremov. The Artist’s attempt to escape from the world by Miracle. Premiere: 10/7/2000. The creators of the play: author Daniil Harms, director Mikhail Levitin, artist David Borovsky, Yasya Rafikova, composer Andrei Semenov. Moscow Theater "Hermitage"

  * “The Old Woman” is a joint work (production, set design, concept of light) directed by Robert Wilson and actors Willem Defoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov .  The premiere took place on July 4, 2013 at the  [47] .

• "Harms" is a performance based on the works of Daniil Kharms directed by Sergei Filatov. The premiere took place at the St. Petersburg Academic Theater named after Lensovet on February 6, 2015.
• "Harms. Myr ”-“ Gogol Center ”, directed by Maxim Didenko.
• “11 Statements by Daniil Ivanovich Kharms” - staged by Vladimir Krasovsky at the Lane Theater Group at the Moscow State Academic Theater in 2009. The performance participated in the festival “YOUR CHANCE”, the festival “Left Bank”.
• “Breath (answer to Aristotle)” - Interactive one-man show. St. Petersburg. "Three letters theater." Directors: Sergey Gogun and Kirill Chumakov.
• “Second Breath (dialogue with Solomon)” - Interactive one-man show. St. Petersburg. "Three letters theater." Directors: Sergey Gogun and Kirill Chumakov.
• “Unsuccessful performance” - theater studio “On the third floor”. Director Larisa Karaseva. 2015. 1st degree laureate at the All-Russian festival "Rainbow of childhood". The play is dedicated to Ekaterina Okhotnikova.
• “Daniel Harms. The history of the SDPR Games »- a one-man show by Alexander Lushin based on Harms' works and diary entries. Director Yuri Vasiliev . “Such a Theater” (St. Petersburg)
• "Four-legged crow" - Moscow Youth Theater. Director Pavel Artemyev.
• “Harms, Harms and AGAIN Harms” - staged by Yuri Tomoshevsky (directed by Sergey Safronov). St. Petersburg. Released May 11, 2017.

Ballet

• “Falling Out Old Women” - Alexei Ratmansky’s ballet to the music of Leonid Desyatnikov’s vocal cycle. The premiere took place on October 6, 2007 as part of the Territory Festival ^[48] .

Opera

• "Gvidon" - production of the opera of Alexander Manotskov in the theater " School of Dramatic Art ". The premiere took place in November 2009, in 2011 the performance received the Golden Mask Award (nomination “Experiment”) ^[49] .

Биографии

• Кобринский А. А. Даниил Хармс. — М. : Молодая гвардия , 2009. — 508 с. — ( Жизнь замечательных людей ). — ISBN 978-5-235-03258-3 .
• Случаи и вещи: Даниил Хармс и его окружение. Материал будущего музея. Exhibition catalog. — СПб.: Вита Нова, 2013. — 200 с., ил., 1000 экз., ISBN 978-5-93898-462-2
• Шубинский В. Даниил Хармс. Жизнь человека на ветру / Валерий Шубинский. — СПб.: Вита Нова, 2008. — 560 с. : ill. — («Жизнеописания»).

Мемуары

• Бахтерев И. В. Когда мы были молодыми // Воспоминания о Заболоцком. — Изд.2-е. — М., Сов.писатель, 1984. — С.57—100.
• Гернет Н. В. О Хармсе (Заметки к вечеру памяти Д. И. Хармса, Москва, 1976) / Н. В. Порет // Нева . — 1988. — № 2. — С. 201—204.
• Глебова Т. Н. О Данииле Ивановиче Хармсе// Experiment/Эксперимент: Журнал русской культуры. № 16: Шестнадцать пятниц: Вторая волна ленинградского авангарда: В 2-х ч. LA (USA), 2010.Ч.2.С.467-469.
• Глоцер В. Марина Дурново. Мой муж Даниил Хармс. — М. : ИМА-Пресс, 2000. — 196 с., ил.
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• Порет А. И. Воспоминания о Данииле Хармсе / А. И. Порет; предисл. и публ. В. И. Глоцера // Панорама искусств . — 1980. — Вып. 3. — С. 343—359.

Литературоведение

• Jaccard J.-Ph. Daniil Harms et la fin de l'avant-garde russe. — Bern: Peter Lang, 1991. — (Slavica Helvetica).
• Жаккар Ж.-Ф. Даниил Хармс и конец русского авангарда / Перевод с французского Ф. А. Петровской; Научный редактор В. Н. Сажин . - SPb. : Академический проект , 1995. — 472 с. — ISBN 5-7331-0050-8 .
• Кобринский А. А. Поэтика «ОБЭРИУ» в контексте русского литературного авангарда : [в 2 т.] / А. А. Кобринский. — M., 2000.
• Кобринский А. А. О Хармсе и не только: статьи о русской литературе XX века / А. А. Кобринский. - SPb. : СПГУТД, 2007. — 406 с.
• Столетие Даниила Хармса : материалы международной научной конференции, посвящённой 100-летию со дня рождения Даниила Хармса / науч. редактор А. Кобринский. — СПб., 2005. — 255 с.
• Токарев Дмитрий . Курс на худшее: Абсурд как категория текста у Даниила Хармса и Сэмюэля Беккета. — М. : Новое литературное обозрение , 2002. — 339 с.
• Хармс-авангард : материалы международной научной конференции «Даниил Хармс: авангард в действии и в отмирании. К 100-летию со дня рождения поэта» (Филологический факультет. Белград. 14-18 декабря 2005 г.). — Белград : Изд-во филологического факультета Белградского университета, 2006. — 503 с.
• Михаил Ямпольский . Беспамятство как исток (Читая Хармса) . — М. : Новое литературное обозрение, 1998. — 379 с. — ISBN 9785867930325 .
• Tumanov, Vladimir and Larissa Klein. « The Child and the Child-like in Daniil Kharms .» Russian Literature 34 (1993): 241—269.
• Обухов Е., Горбушин С. Удивить сторожа. Перечитывая Хармса / Издательство ИКАР, 2012. — 184 с.
• Гервер Лариса . Даниил Хармс: три музыкальных случая // Научный вестник Московской консерватории . — 2015. — № 2 .

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