Zoo, or, Letters not about love
By: Viktor Shklovsky ; translated with an introduction by Richard Sheldon.
Contributors: Sheldon, Richard
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Normal, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Other titles: Zoo; Letters not about love
Description: "While living in exile in Berlin, Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet (the "Alya" of this novel). Shklovsky was in 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.