Title: A Failed Performance Author: Daniil Kharms ISBN: 9780999724705 Publisher: 53rd State Press Published: 2018 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Translation Number of Pages: 232 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: 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.
