The texts of D. Harms are clear and at the same time mysterious. It was this that prompted the author - a well-known culturologist and literary critic - to devote his research to poetics, philosophical origins and the cultural context of the writer's work. Everything that in the early avant-garde serves as a magical transformation of reality is used by Harms to deconstruct the very concept of "reality" or to criticize the mimetic properties of literature. The author simply reads Harms, but this is a creative reading or, otherwise, "free movement of thought within the text," which allows him to make important observations and conclusions regarding not only Harms's work, but also art of the 20th century. in general.