Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot

One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of...
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Author: Viktor Shklovsky
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Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot by Shklovsky, Viktor

Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot

$36.13

Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot

$36.13
Author: Viktor Shklovsky
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 (and how great criticism might be) that is as timely today as ever.

Author: Viktor Shklovsky
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 428
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.75w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9781564784261


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/31/2007 pg. 44
Library Journal 11/05/2007

About the Author
Shklovsky, Viktor: - 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".Avagyan, Shushan: - 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".

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