Viktor Shklovsky
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited and translated by Alexandra Berlina
Contributors: Berlina, Alexandra, translator, editor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781501310362; 9781501310379
Subjects: Criticism; Motion pictures; Russian literature; Opoi︠a︡z (Literary group); Authorship; History and criticism; History
Work titles: Works
Description: 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.
Notes: "Mokhail Prokhorov Fund: supporting the translation of Russian literature."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-393) and index.

Translated from the Russian.
Table of contents: title: Translator's introduction; title: OPOYAZ publications; title: Autobiographic hybrids; title: Early Soviet criticism and advice to young writers; title: After the freeze; title: On the theory of prose (1983); title: In 60 years : works on cinema (1985).