Energy of Delusion - Couverture souple

Shklovsky, Viktor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1564784266 ISBN 13 : 9781564784261

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 Tugenev) as a springboard to consider the devices of literature how novels work and what they do. Available in English for the first time, Energy of Delusion provides contemporary readers with a new way of thinking about how great literature is written (and how great criticism might be) that is as timely today as ever.

Biographie de l'auteur :

A leading figure in the Russian Formalist movement of the 1910s and 1920s, Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) had a profound effect on twentieth-century Russian literature and on literary criticism throughout the world. Several of his books have been translated into English, including Third Factory, Theory of Prose, and Zoo, or Letters Not about Love, all available from the Dalkey Archive Press. Over the next few years, Dalkey Archive will also publish the first English language editions of Shklovsky's Hamburg Account, Bowstring, and Literature and Cinematography. Shushan Avagyan, translator of Energy of Delusion, has also translated the works of Armenian poet S. Kurghinian. She is currently working on her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature at Illinois State University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1564784266
• ISBN 13: 9781564784261
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 428