Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2016 9) 1101-1108 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82-7 The Problem of Understanding in the Works of D. Kharms (Based on the Collection “Incidents”) Natalia V. Kovtun and Uliana A. Skripnikova* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 12.01.2016, received in revised form 18.03.2016, accepted 23.04.2016 The article presents the experience in describing inter-historical communication between the author and the reader. <...> The results of our study suggest that often the author deliberately violates a communicative act due to external (the political situation) or internal causes. <...> However, as any phenomenon, tradition gives rise to anti-tradition, when inevitable changes occur in the historical process, a person learns to live in the new world. <...> As part of anti-tradition we would like to refer to the work of D. Kharms, one of the brightest representatives of literature of absurdism, to the problem of the perception of his works by modern Natalia V. Kovtun and Uliana A. Skripnikova. <...> The Problem of Understanding in the Works of D. Kharms… readers. <...> It is noteworthy that the hero of the story did not have “a stomach” as a symbol of life (D’iachenko, 1899, 184). <...> The hero is gradually amputated parts of the body, he ceases to exist. <...> Historical Miniatures This group consists of three miniatures, the fi rst of which, “Pushkin and Gogol,” was written in 1934. <...> These fi ve geniusespoets are Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Pushkin and Gogol” (Kharms, 1991, 118). <...> However, according to A.A. Kobrinskii, “Kharms could not put up with pathos and talks about greatness” (Kobrinskii, 2008, 375). <...> Like other characters from the collection “Incidents”, the poet Pushkin and the writer Gogol, are caricatures of people. <...> Their images the miniature heroes, are deprived of historical features. <...> The heroes are endowed with “conventional” names that could have been, for example, “Vasia” and “Kolia”, rather than “Pushkin” and “Gogol”. <...> The choice of names contains a jest about society created a cult of Russian writers (Kovtun, 2014, 6995), parodies historical and literary comparison between A.S. Pushkin and N.V. Gogol as artists as well as juxtaposition of their creative principles, in connection with what the terms “Gogol’s direction” and “Pushkin’s direction” get ahistorical features. <...> In 1939 D. Kharms again returns <...>