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Viktor Shklovsky

Works by Viktor Shklovsky

Zoo, or Letters Not about Love [Buy Direct]

by Viktor Shklovsky
Translated by Richard Sheldon
Original title: Zoo

While living in exile in Berlin, Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet (the "Alya" of thi s 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 L (more...)

Third Factory [Buy Direct]

by Viktor Shklovsky
Translated by Richard Sheldon
Original title: Tret'ia fabrika

Like many of Shklovsky's works, Third Factory cannot be neatly classified. In part it is a memoir of the three "Factories" that influenced his development as a human being and as a writer, yet the events depicted within the book are fict ionalized and conveyed with the poetic verve and (more...)

Theory of Prose [Buy Direct]

by Viktor Shklovsky
Translated by Benjamin Sher
Original title: O teorii prozy

Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the 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 1930s, and the unavailab (more...)