Daniil Kharms and Samuel Bskket knew nothing about each other. Nevertheless, their work is brought closer not only externally - by the absurdity of many texts - but also on a deeper level of metaphysical intuitions. Both writers are concerned with the problem of the fundamental “illogicality” of the world, feel in it the presence of a dark unconscious “being-in-itself” and each in their own way seeks salvation from it - either by achieving a mystical experience of a newly purified world, or by opposing the project to impersonal material-biological being mortal non-existence. The monograph by D. V. Tokarev, exploring the philosophical foundations of the “absurd” creativity of Kharms and Beckett, is addressed to literary scholars, philosophers, and historians of modern culture.