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A review by bondebonde
Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings by Daniil Kharms
3.0
A very strange, funny, and enjoyable book. As inconsistent as Grimm's fairy tales, but in a very different ways. In fact it he writes a fairy tale in which i man is visited by a magician who will grant him three wishes, but instead the man runs away and cries. Then the final line, "Reader! Think this fable over and it will make you somewhat uncomfortable." Kharms is classified as an absurdist and he certainly is at times. This can be fun, jolting, or boring and annoying. This book is filled with enough wonderful one-liners (some of the 'stories' are in fact one-liners) that it is worth it. A few for posterity:
You should quit smoking in order to boast of your will power.
Bubnov did not love his new wife. Whnever she left the house, Bubnov would buy himself a new hat and spent his time exchanging greetings with his neighbor, Anna Moseyevna. But once one of Anna Moiseyevna's teeth broke and she opened her mouth real wide in pain. Bubnov began to ponder deeply his biography.
"You see," I said, "in my opinion, there are no believers or non-believers. There are only those who want to believe and those that do not want to believe."
(Finally, a full story for you)
The Meeting
Now, one day a man went to work and on the way he met another man, who, having bought a loaf of Polish bread, was heading back home where he came from.
And that's it, more or less.
And that's it, more or less.
You should quit smoking in order to boast of your will power.
Bubnov did not love his new wife. Whnever she left the house, Bubnov would buy himself a new hat and spent his time exchanging greetings with his neighbor, Anna Moseyevna. But once one of Anna Moiseyevna's teeth broke and she opened her mouth real wide in pain. Bubnov began to ponder deeply his biography.
"You see," I said, "in my opinion, there are no believers or non-believers. There are only those who want to believe and those that do not want to believe."
(Finally, a full story for you)
The Meeting
Now, one day a man went to work and on the way he met another man, who, having bought a loaf of Polish bread, was heading back home where he came from.
And that's it, more or less.
And that's it, more or less.