As featured in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Times Book Review.

Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms's archives, being recognized internationally. Thanks to the efforts of translator and poet Matvei Yankelevich, English language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms's literary reputationÑa reputation that grew in Russia even as the Soviet establishment worked to suppress it.

Both a major contribution for American scholars and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.

Translated from the Russian by Matvei Yankelevich...

"With remarkable precision and fluid language, the stories capture everyday tension in a land where an innocent knock on the door might mean entrapment in a bureaucratic maze or even death at the hands of the military."-The New York Times Book Review

This collection of stories is composed of short miniatures, many of which the author called "incidents." The quirky, bold writing of Incidences perfectly captures the surreal spirit of its times....