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Shklovsky: Witness to an Era is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar ...

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Begun in 1929 under the title “New Prose,” and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky’s sudden death, A Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a ...

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Dalkey Archive Press s favorite writer of them all.

Shklovsky’s masterwork, the product of more than a decade of hard thinking, is on the face of it a book about Tolstoy. Indeed, it is about Tolstoy, but, in typical Shklovskian style, it is also ...

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First published in 1923, Knight’s Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky, no doubt the most original literary critic and ...

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“One would be hard pressed to decide whether the book is more notable for what it says or for how it says it . . . Viktor Shklovsky’s A Sentimental Journey is highly ...

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Like many of Shklovsky’s works, Third Factory is not easily classified. In part it is a memoir of the three “Factories” that influenced his development as a human being ...

While living in exile in Berlin, the Russian formalist theorist Viktor Shklovsky fell in (unrequited) love with Elsa Triolet. He wrote her several letters a day which she would only accept on the ...

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Theory of Prose is one of the twentieth century’s most important works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions ...