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Viktor Shklovsky

A Reader

By: Viktor Shklovsky

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Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was both patriarch and enfant terrible of 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 Reader is 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.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501310364

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9781501310362

Bowstring

On the Dissimilarity of the Similar

By: Viktor Shklovsky

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Bowstring

On the Dissimilarity of the Similar

By: Viktor Shklovsky

“Myths do not flow through the pipes of history,” writes Viktor Shklovsky, “they change and splinter, they contrast and refute one another. The similar turns out to be dissimilar.” Published in Moscow in 1970 and appearing in English translation for the first time, Bowstring is a seminal work, in which Shklovsky redefines estrangement (ostranenie) as a device of the literary comparatist—the “person out of place,” who has turned up in a period where he does not belong and who must search for meaning with a strained sensibility. As Shklovsky experiments with different genres, employing a technique of textual montage, he mixes autobiography, biography, memoir, history, and literary criticism in a book that boldly refutes mechanical repetition, mediocrity, and cultural parochialism in the name of art that dares to be different and innovative. Bowstring is a brilliant and provocative book that spares no one in its unapologetic project to free art from conventionality.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564787095

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9781564787095

A Hunt for Optimism

By: Viktor Shklovsky

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A Hunt for Optimism

By: Viktor Shklovsky

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 single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Using multiple perspectives, fragments, and aphorisms, and bearing the vulnerability of both the Russian Jewry and the anti-Bolshevik intelligentsia—who had unwittingly become the "enemies of the people"Hunt satirizes Soviet censorship and the ineptitude of Soviet leaders with acerbic panache. Despite criticism at the time that it lacked unity and was too "variegated" to be called a purely "Shklovskian book," Hunt is stylistically unpredictable, experimentally bold, and unapologetically ironic—making it one of the finest books in Shklovsky's body of work.

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135

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564788237

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9781564788238

Viktor Shklovsky

A Reader

By: Viktor Shklovsky

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A Reader

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Literature and Cinematography

By: Viktor Shklovskiĭ

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Literature and Cinematography

By: Viktor Shklovskiĭ

In this essay, a leading figure of the Russian Formalist movement of the 1910s and 1920s enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, more importantly, what they are not. His views of the other arts lead him into speculations about cinematography, which was just emerging at the time of writing, 1923.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564784827

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Zoo, or Letters Not about Love

By: Viktor Shklovsky

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Zoo, or Letters Not about Love

By: Viktor Shklovsky

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, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here cover everything from observations about contemporary German and Russian life to theories of art and literature, nonetheless every one of them is indirectly dedicated to the one topic they are all required to avoid: their author's own unrequited love.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1628975210

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9781628975215

Literature and Cinematography

By: Viktor Shklovskiĭ

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A Sentimental Journey

Memoirs, 1917-1922

By: Viktor Shklovskiĭ

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A Sentimental Journey

Memoirs, 1917-1922

By: Viktor Shklovskiĭ

Viktor Shklovsky's "A Sentimental Journey," which borrows its title from Laurence Sterne, describes the travels of a bewildered intellectual through Russia, Persia, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus during the period of the Russian Revolution. Valuable as a historical document for its first-hand account of the events during the period of 1917-1922, "A Sentimental Journey" is also an important experimental literary work--a memoir in the form of a novel. At times lyrical, disturbing, ironic, and erudite, "A Sentimental Journey" is a singular book from one of the most recognizable and influential voices of twentieth-century Russian literature.

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Commonwealth Secretariat

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1564783545

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9781564783547

Life of a Bishop's Assistant

By: Viktor Shklovsky

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Life of a Bishop's Assistant

By: Viktor Shklovsky

Life of a Bishop's Assistant is a "rewritten" biography of the 18th century historical figure, Gavriil Dobrinin. The son of a priest, he became an assistant to a bishop before being fortunate to rise all the way to gubernia procurator. Despite the obscurity of Dobrinin, it is Shklovsky's narration of his story that takes center stage. Like Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, Life of a Bishop's Assistant is a notable example of experimentation with narrative form in the early twentieth century by one of its leading theorists.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1628972599

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9781628972597

Coiled Verbal Spring

Devices of Lenin's Language

By: Vladimir Vladimirovič Maâkovskij,Boris Mihajlovič Èjhenbaum,Lev Petrovich Yakubinsky,Iouri Nikolaevitch Tynianov,Boris Vassilievitch Kazansky,Boris Viktorovich Tomashevsky,Aleksej Eliseevič Kručenyh,Viktor Borisovič Šklovskij

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Coiled Verbal Spring

Devices of Lenin's Language

The publication Coiled Verbal Spring : Devices of Lenin's Language brings together the first English translation of the Russian Formalist and Futurist writings on Lenin's revolutionary language. The book includes the Russian Formalists' (Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yuri Tynyanov, Boris Tomashevsky, Lev Yakubinsky, and Boris Kazansky) most 'political' texts, first published in 1924 in the journal of the Left Front of the Arts (edited by Mayakovsky). Together with this collection, the publication also includes Futurist poet Alexei Kruchenykh's Devices of Lenin's Speech, from 1925. Indispensable for any serious research dealing with the relationship between revolutionary politics and artistic forms, these writings had remained a marginal note, both in studies on avant-garde art, and in much literature on Formalist theory. The publication is edited by Sezgin Boynik, who wrote an extensive introduction to the translations by contextualising the experiments of the Russian avant-garde through theories of conjuncture, or more precisely, the theory of contemporaneity within the revolutionary moment. Darko Suvin in his afterword discusses the actuality (and limits) of Lenin and Formalists in the shadow of never-ending warfare.

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9529388675

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A Hunt for Optimism

A Hunt for Optimism

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Viktor Shklovsky

Literature and Cinematography

Literature and Cinematography

Zoo, or Letters Not about Love

Zoo, or Letters Not about Love

Literature and Cinematography

Literature and Cinematography

A Sentimental Journey

A Sentimental Journey

Life of a Bishop's Assistant

Life of a Bishop's Assistant

Coiled Verbal Spring

Coiled Verbal Spring

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