Viktor Shklovsky A Reader [Hardcover]

Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was both patriarch andenfant terribleof Formalism, a literary and film scholar, a fiction writer and the protagonist of other people's novels, instructor of an armored division and professor at the Art History Institute, revolutionary and counterrevolutionary. His work was deeply informed by his long and eventful life. He wrote for over seventy years, both as a very young man in the wake of the Russian revolution and as a ninety-year old, never tiring of analyzing the workings of literature.

Viktor Shklovsky: A Readeris the first book that collects crucial writings from across Shklovsky's career, serving as an entry point for first-time readers. It presents new translations of key texts, interspersed with excerpts from memoirs and letters, as well as important work that has not appeared in English before.

Translator's Introduction
Viktor Shklovsky: Life and Work
Ostranenie and Other Key Concepts
Shklovsky in the West: Reception and Heritage
The Poker of Russian Formalism: Shklovsky as Protagonist
In Fiction
In Diaries and Memoirs
Shklovsky's Shorts
Shklovsky's Style
Selection, Translation and Formal Remarks

Section I: OPOYAZ Publications
Translator's Introduction

Resurrection of the Word (1914)
Art as Device (1917/1919)
Literature beyond Plot (1921/1925)
Literature beyond Theme; Non-Linear Inheritance
Literature beyond Genre; Digressions
Literature beyond Categories; Seeing like a Child

Section II: Autobiographic Hybrids
Translator's Introduction

A Letter to Roman Jakobson (1922/1990)
Zoo, or Letters Not About Love (1923/1965)
Author's Preface to the First Edition
A Second Preface for an Old Book
A Third Preface
Letter Four
Letter Six
Letter Eight
Letter Eleven
Letter Seventeen
Letter Twenty Two
Letter Twenty Eight
Letter Thirty
A Sentimental Journey (1923)
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