The body as a function of the absurd narrative in «The Old Woman» by D. Kharms

The article deals with the the interpretation of D. Kharms's story «The Old Woman» through the absurdity poetics which creates «the sum of practically independent monotopics». We can find out and describe some of such microtopics: the real topic (the storyteller and the old woman), the symbolic topic embodying the metaphor of a human soul immortality, and the self-referential micro-topic about «The Old Woman» creation story.

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