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Why suffer through absurd times without enjoying absurdist writings? Bonus: improve your Russian at the same time! The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms https://russia-on-line.com/en/we-publish-books/513477-the-old-woman-annontated-russian-reader-b1-b2-audiobook-9780997147513.html

Статья Нины Власовой о преподавании русского языка детям эмигрантов.

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The Old Woman is an annotated reader with an emphasis on the verbs of motion and position. It includes many exercises to help master tricky Russian verbs.
The story follows the narrator dealing with an old woman who dies inexplicably in his apartment. The Old Woman, a brilliant, obscure and slyly political novella from the 1930s.
On one level, it is absurdist literature used to great humorous effect. Its illogical, nonsensical, and fantastical situations recall the surreal humor in the works of Lewis Carroll. On another level, the story, completed in 1939 following Stalin's purges and the Great Terror, can be read as political allegory, obliquely conveying the repressions, violence, and brutality of Soviet Russia of the time. The Old Woman is an innovative imaginative work that is at once disturbing, darkly funny, and thought provoking.