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Energy of Delusion
Viktor Shklovsky
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Description for Energy of Delusion
Paperback. Translator(s): Avagyan, Shushan. Series: Russian Literature Series. Num Pages: 428 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls “loiterature”—writing that roams, playfully digresses, moving freely between the literary work and the world. In Energy of Delusion, a masterpiece that Shklovsky worked on over thirty years, he turns his unique critical sensibility to Tolstoy’s life and novels, applying the famous “formalist method” he invented in the 1920s to Tolstoy’s massive body of work, and at the same time taking Tolstoy (as well as Boccaccio, Pushkin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev) as a springboard to consider the devices of literature—how ... Read more
One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls “loiterature”—writing that roams, playfully digresses, moving freely between the literary work and the world. In Energy of Delusion, a masterpiece that Shklovsky worked on over thirty years, he turns his unique critical sensibility to Tolstoy’s life and novels, applying the famous “formalist method” he invented in the 1920s to Tolstoy’s massive body of work, and at the same time taking Tolstoy (as well as Boccaccio, Pushkin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev) as a springboard to consider the devices of literature—how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
Series
Russian Literature Series
Number of Pages
428
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564784261
SKU
V9781564784261
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About Viktor Shklovsky
Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was a leading figure in the Russian Formalist movement of the 1920s and had a profound effect on twentieth-century Russian literature. Several of his books have been translated into English, including "Zoo, or Letters Not about Love, Third Factory, Theory of Prose, A Sentimental Journey, Energy of Delusion", and "Literature and Cinematography", and "Bowstring". Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) ... Read more
Reviews for Energy of Delusion
"...arguably the greatest critical work on Tolstoy's masterpiece" —Publishers Weekly "Shklovsky is a disciple worthy of Sterne. He has appropriated the device of infinitely delayed event, of the digression helplessly promising to return to the point, and of disguising his superbly controlled art with a breezy nonchalance. But it is not really Sterne that Shklovsky sounds like: it ... Read more