Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader - Couverture rigide

Shklovsky, Viktor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1501310364 ISBN 13 : 9781501310362

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 peoples novels, instructor of an armoured 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 70 years, both as a young man in the wake of the Russian revolution and as a ninety year old, never tiring of analyzing the workings of literature. Shklovskys work is aphoristic, essayistic, startlingly thought-provoking, and eminently readable. 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 as well as important work that has not appeared in English before. The theoretical writing is interspersed with excerpts from memoirs and letters that illuminate the essays. What we call art exists in order to give back the sensation of life, wrote Shklovsky in 1917. Literary and film scholarship, as practiced by him, exist in order to give back the sensation of art.

Revue de presse :

An extraordinary revelation of the unbelievable life and work of the man who invented formalism. Alexandra Berlina has done a great service to literature by rescuing these fragments of one of the most lively and irreverent minds of the last century. A book to return to, again and again. --David Bellos, Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, Princeton University, USA, and author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything

This collection allows all readers to approach the life and opinions of Viktor Shklovsky, one of the most fascinating figures of Russian cultural life in the twentieth century. --Tzvetan Todorov, historian, essayist, and author of The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic USA
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1501310364
• ISBN 13: 9781501310362
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416