Author of the Month: Viktor Shklovsky
Our author of the month for March is the Russian literary theorist, novelist and cinematographer Viktor Shklovsky. His long life (1893 to 1984) encompassed revolution (several), war (also several), persecution and rehabilitation. His hybrid memoir-novels provide a marvellous insight into the cultural history of 20th-century Russia – Shklovsky knew everyone, from Esenin to Gorky to Mayakovsky, and quarrelled with most of them.