A Failed Performance (Paperback)

A Failed Performance By Daniil Kharms, Basset C. Dylan (Translator), Emma Winsor Wood (Translator) Cover Image

A Failed Performance (Paperback)

By Daniil Kharms, Basset C. Dylan (Translator), Emma Winsor Wood (Translator)

$19.95


Special Order—Subject to Availability
(This book cannot be returned.)
People disappear without explanation. The government takes hostages. War and death occur without reason or meaning. The cycle of poverty and deprivation proliferates. A Failed Performance is a collection of bizarre and darkly humorous plays and scenes from the Russian avant-garde writer Daniil Kharms. This collection--the first volume in English dedicated entirely to Kharms's dramatic works--includes his major stage plays Elizaveta Bam and Lapa as well as lesser-known sketches and hybrid poem-plays, most of which were never published or performed during his lifetime.
C Dylan Bassett's books are Gad's Book (2023), A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms (2018), and Invention of Monsters: Plays for the Theatre (2015). He is an Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Emma Winsor Wood is a poet and essayist from New York City, Emma is the author of the poetry collection The Real World (BlazeVOX Books, 2022) and translator of A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms (Plays Inverse, 2018). She has a BA in Russian History & Literature from Harvard, an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz.She is the editor-in-chief of Stone Soup Magazine--the magazine 100% created by kids for kids (we like to think of ourselves as the Paris Review for the under-thirteen set!).Finally, she is the co-author of The Complete College Essay Handbook, and works one-on-one with a select group of students on their college application essays each year.
Product Details ISBN: 9780999724705
ISBN-10: 0999724703
Publisher: 53rd State Press
Publication Date: August 28th, 2018
Pages: 232
Language: English