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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 ...

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Dalkey Archive Press s favorite writer of them all.

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“Perhaps because he is such an unlikely Tolstoyan, Viktor Shklovsky’s writing on Tolstoy is always absorbing and often brilliant.” Russian Review

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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 ...

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While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, ...

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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 ...