Daniil Kharms and Sherlock Holmes

Daniil Kharms (1905–42) is known as an author of Russian absurd literature. It is generally overlooked that the pseudonym Kharms encodes Sherlock Holmes’s Russian name of Kholms. An intertextual comparison between Kharms and Holmes shows how Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes made his way into Russian absurd literature. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 28, Issue 2.

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Lisanne Sauerwald holds a Ph.D. in Slavic philology and is a staff member of the Institute for Slavic Philology and International Research Funding Office at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich.

Lisanne Sauerwald
Format: E-Single
Pages: 16
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Copyright Date: 2010
eISBN: 978-1-4766-2475-4

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