Pușkin reciclat: ,,Dama de pică’’ și ,,Bătrâna’’ lui Daniil Harms
Pushkin Recycled: ’’The Queen of Spades’’ and Daniil Harms` ’’An Old Lady’’

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on Daniil Kharms, a eccentric Russian avant-garde writer, famous for his use of the grotesque and absurd. His story The Old Woman draws upon literary motifs found in Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades, while also holding a mirror to the tragic and, at times, absurd life in Soviet Russia. Kharms’ story shares many themes and motifs with Pushkin’s text: the ‘‘old lady’’ as a central motif, the clock, the dream, death, Saint Petersburg as main scenery. Ultimately, Kharms succeeds in his effort to demythologize the ‘‘old lady’’.

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