num_pages: 304
description: 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 Valuable as a historical document for its first-hand account of the events during the period of 1917-1922, A Sentimental Journey is also an important experimental literary work—a memoir in the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.
language: English
title: Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922
titlecomplete: Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922 (Russian Literature)
genres: Classics, History, Russia, Biography Memoir, Russian Literature, Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 152
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press