A hunt for optimism
By: Viktor Shklovsky ; translated by Shushan Avagyan
Contributors: Avagyan, Shushan, translator
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781564787903
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Russian Authors; Fiction
Work titles: Poiski optimizma
Description: This book 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. This book satirizes Soviet censorship and the ineptitude of Soviet leaders with acerbic panache.