Viktor Shklovsky

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"This collection allows all readers to approach the life and opinions of Viktor Shklovsky, one of the most fascinating figures of Russian cultural life in the twentieth century." - Tzvetan Todorov, historian, essayist, and author of The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.

Viktor Shklovsky () 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/5.

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.

Dalkey Archive Press has decided to bring out Viktor Shklovsky in English, mostly as translated by Richard Sheldon; but they've gone back and reprinted this translation of Shklovsky's important essay collection from by Benjamin Sher, originally published in It's very good to have it in print, in a good-enough English by: In bk.: Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy.

Lexington Books, P. In the history of Soviet culture, Viktor Shklovsky achieved far more than the status of original theoretician, keen critic and writer who was able to produce literature corresponding to stylistic, or generic, goals he articulated : Kalinin Ilya.

Viktor Shklovsky's book Theory of Prose might have become Viktor Shklovsky book most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian Formalists in the s, and the unavailability of /5.

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Viktor Shklovsky, in full Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky, (born January 24 [Janu Old Style],St. Petersburg, Russia—died December 8,Moscow), Russian literary critic and novelist.

He was a major voice of Formalism, a critical school that had great influence in Russian literature in the s. Shklovsky made a book of it, an odd epistolary novel titled Zoo, or Letters Not About Love (): Triolet had allowed him to write to her on the condition that he not mention love.

The constraint. Viktor Shklovsky's book Theory of Prosemight have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet. Viktor Shklovsky () was a leading figure in the Russian Formalist movement of the s and had a profound effect on twentieth-century Russian literature.

Several of his books have been translated into English, including "Zoo, or Letters Not about Love, Third Factory, Theory of Prose, A Sentimental Journey, Energy of Delusion", and "Literature and Cinematography", and "Bowstring".Brand: Dalkey Archive Press.

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 Shklovsky: A Reader is the first book that collects crucial writings from across Shklovsky's career.

A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs, by Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at   The Russian Formalists’ concept of “Defamiliarization”, proposed by Viktor Shklovsky in his Art as Technique, refers to the literary device whereby language is used in such a way that ordinary and familiar objects are made to look is a process of transformation where language asserts its power to affect our perception.

Viktor Shklovsky () was a leading figure in the Russian Formalist movement of the s and had a profound effect on twentieth-century Russian literature. Several of his books have been translated into English, including "Zoo, or Letters Not about Love, Third Factory, Theory of Prose, A Sentimental Journey, Energy of Delusion", and Brand: Dalkey Archive Press.

Viktor Shklovsky 24 January - 6 December Russian writer 63 works Add another. Most Editions | First Published | Most Recent. Showing all works by author. In Viktor Shklovsky’s essay “Art as Device” habitual perception is described as a dangerous practice, which renders one insensitive to the experiences of modernity.

perception. In “Pounding Nails with a Samovar,” one of the essays in the book, Shklovsky writes that hardship, like the ritualistic fire, had a profound effect on. Victor Shklovsky: lt;p|>|Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky| (or Shklovskii; |Russian|: |Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский|; 2 World Heritage.

son (published in ); some parallels are also drawn between Shklovsky’s and books on Leo Tolstoy. In chapter 3 Slav Gratchev analyzes a series of interviews with Viktor Shklovsky that were conducted in – by professor Victor Duvakin in Moscow.

Many years had to pass before the recording could become a book. Viktor Shklovsky’s Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar and Energy of Delusion — two works of literary theory recently translated and published for the first time in English by the.

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