D. Kharms' texts are clear and at the same time mysterious. This is what prompted the author, a famous cultural and literary critic, to devote his research to the poetics, philosophical origins and cultural context of the writer’s work. Everything that in the early avant-garde serves the magical transformation of reality, Kharms uses to deconstruct the very concept of “reality” or to criticize the mimetic properties of literature. The author simply reads Kharms, but this is creative reading or, in other words, “free movement of thought within the text,” which allows him to make important observations and conclusions concerning not only Kharms’s work, but also the art of the 20th century. in general.