Anthony Anemone (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is associate professor of Russian language and literature at The New School. He is the author of numerous articles on modern Russian literature and cinema, and the editor of Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia (Northwestern UP 2010).
“[Kharms’s notebooks] are generously sampled and gracefully
translated by Anemone (The New School) and Scotto (Mount Holyoke
College). . . . Not only have they succeeded in producing a vivid,
often poignant portrait of Kharms, they offer a host of new texts
in English—many as funny, violent, and profoundly existential as
any seen before. . . . Highly recommended.” —M. Kasper
(emeritus, Amherst College) in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic
Libraries, August 2013
“Gives the best sense of any book in English of Kharms both within
his context and as a deeply fascinating individual whose work can’t
be ... explained away by the circumstances of its creation. . . . A
huge addition to the Kharms canon in English. . . . Dozens of
entries translated here for the first time that are just as great,
as weird and delightful and mysterious, as
his better-known works.” —Chris Cumming, review published on
BOMBlog, August 1, 2013
“Anemone and Scotto do an outstanding job in conveying the texture
of Kharms’s writing. . . . The notebooks, diaries, and letters
presented in ‘I am a Phenomenon’ show the breadth of Kharms’s
interests, in literature, music, art, philosophy, psychology,
mathematics, religion . . . the book documents Kharms’s hopes,
doubts, frustrations, and physical and psychic pains about work and
life. . . . Anemone and Scotto have done an excellent job. They
state, ‘We believe that we have remained true to the spirit of the
notebooks’ (p. 43). Absolutely!” —Ellen Chances, Princeton
University. Review published in The Russian Review, January 2014
(Vol. 73, No. 1)
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