'I got your letter and realised at once that it was from you'

Letters of Nonsense

Daniil Kharms, c.1930. Wikipedia.

Born in 1905, Daniil Kharms was a Russian surrealist poet and writer who in 1937 confessed in his journal, “I am interested only in nonsense…”—a statement that goes some way to explaining his letters, some of which were finally translated into English in 2013 and included in the highly recommended book, “I am a Phenomeno…