TY - JOUR N2 - The author, putting the metaphor of “a living dead” to the interpretation, tries to find the common points in the creative output of both writers i.e. Pushkin and Kharms. Both writers, belonging to extremely different literary periods and using other medium, were interested in the most important matters, among others the matter of life and death. Paradoxical metaphor of “a living dead” may imply not only a person being physically exhausted but above all a person deprived of emotions, experience and human reactions, whose fate brings nothing else but the inevitability of death. However, the matter that links both Pushkin and Kharms is the concept of “a coincidence”, which rules human fate, which is unpredictable, hard to avoid and which is a tool at hands of the providence. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/112075/PDF/SO%202-19%204-J.Walczak.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/112075 PY - 2019 IS - No 2 EP - 292 DO - 10.24425/slo.2019.128472 KW - thanatology KW - Kharms KW - Pushkin KW - death KW - living dead A1 - Walczak, Jakub PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN VL - vol. LXVIII DA - 2019.06.25 T1 - Living Dead. The Inevitability of Death at Works of Aleksandr Pushkin and Danil Kharms SP - 281 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/112075 T2 - Slavia Orientalis ER -