BLACK HUMOR ABOUT CHILDREN DANIIL KHARMS’S PROSE

Abstract

The article provides examples of manifestation of black humor in D. Kharms’s creation, the analysis is based on the concept of carnival of M. Bakhtin and theory of absurd. The researcher touchs on important topics: “terrible laughter” and “relationship between parents and children”, to reveal function of black humor, express writer’s worldview. Image of child is the symbol of humanity’s future and miracle of life. However, D. Kharms in prose carefully builds a mechanism of black humor about children, based on principles of destroying children with unmotivated cruelty and intentional clashes between parents and children. In fact, theme “terrible laughter” takes on function of reflecting heaviness of life and writer’s inner world. In D. Kharms’s prose the existence of person is closely connected with terrible laugh, which conveys to readers eerie feeling of simple person in gloomy world. In his prose, the reflection of painful relations between parents and children in format of black humor serves as a mean of exposing meaninglessness of life and alogism of real situation, a way of expressing writer’s attitude towards good and evil, absurdity of existence peculiar to every person.