Author: Viktor Shklovsky

First published in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky, no doubt the most original lite...

Dalkey Archive Press s favorite writer of them all.

Begun in 1929 under the title "New Prose," and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky's sudden death, "A Hunt for Optimism" (1931) circles o...

"One would be hard pressed to decide whether the book is more notable for what it says or for how it says it . . . Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental...

Like many of Shklovsky's works, Third Factory is not easily classified. In part it is a memoir of the three "Factories" that influenced his develop...

The Hamburg Score (Gamburgsky schyot) is “a very important concept,” wrote Viktor Shklovsky, the famous Russian literary critic and founder of Russ...

As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century’s most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates...

While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending ...

Life of a Bishop’s Assistant is a “rewritten” biography of the 18th century historical figure, Gavriil Dobrinin. The son of a priest, he became an ...