Part 1 Epigraph: Aleksandr Galich - "Legenda o tabake". Part 2 Introduction - Daniil Kharms, black miniaturist, Neil Cornwell; on Daniil Kharms, Iakov Druskin; a Kharms chronology, Anatolii Aleksandrov. Part 3 General studies: Daniil Kharms in the context of Russian and European literature of the absurd, Jean-Philippe Jaccard; the anti-world of Daniil Kharms - on the significance of the absurd, Anthony Anemone. Part 4 The prose works: towards an interpretation of Kharms' "Sluchi", Robin Aizlewood; Slobodan Pesic's film "Slucaj Harms" and Kharms' "Sluchai", Milena Michalski; elements of the fantastic in Daniil Kharms' "Starukha", Rosanna Giaquinta; some features of the poetics of Kharms' prose - the story "Upadanie" ("The Falling"), Aleksandr Kobrinsky. Part 5 The poetic works: on one enigmatic poem by Daniil Kharms, Lazar Fleishman; "I Raxrushenie", Daniil Kharms; Kharms' "I Razrushenie", Jerzy Faryno; Daniil Kharms' poetic system - text, context, intertext, Nina Perlina. Part 6 The theatrical works: the oberiuty and the theatricalization of life, Tatiana Nikol'skaia; Kharms' play "Elizaveta Bam", Milhail Meilakh; "Elizaveta Ham" a dramatic work - a new translation from the definitive text by Neil Cornwell, Daniil Kharms. Part 7 - beyond the turning point - an afterword, Robin Milner-Gulland.