One of the funniest writers I’ve come across is Daniil Kharms, who wrote absurdist short stories and children's books. He was a victim of the Soviet policies (n

One of the funniest writers I’ve come across is Daniil Kharms, who wrote absurdist short stories and children's books. He was a victim of the Soviet policies (no doubt influencing his own work) and unfortunately didn’t make it through WW2. If you like dark absurdist humor, you’ll probably like his work. Here’s one example: Because of her excessive curiosity, an old lady fell out of the window and smashed into the ground. Another old lady looked out of the window, staring down at the one who was smashed, but out of her excessive curiosity she also fell out of the window and smashed into the ground. Then the third old lady fell out of the window, then the fourth did, then the fifth. When the sixth old lady fell out of the window, I got bored watching them and went to Maltsev market where, they say, someone gave a woven shawl to a blind man. https://web.archive.org/web/20040907075615/http://www.sevaj.dk/kharms/kharmseng.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20040907075615/http://www.sevaj.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniil_Kharms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniil_Kharms