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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 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 (andhow great criticism might be) that is as timely today as ever..
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Russian formalist criticism, tr Benjamin Sher .
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Viktor Shklovsky was living in exile in Berlin when he wrote this experimental epistolary novel. In love with Elsa Triolet (referred to as Alya in this novel), Shklovsky was in the habit of sending her several letters a day, a situation Elsa accepted with one condition: he was forbidden from writing about love. ZOO was born out of that constraint and although unrequited love surrounds the letters, their actual subject matter ranges from observations on contemporary Berlin and Russia, to digressions on art and literature and thumbnail portraits of famous Russian writers and artists..
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