<p>"Shklovsky: Witness to an Era" is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar Serena Vitale in the '70s, toward the end of the great critic's life, and in the face of interference and even veiled threats of violence from the Soviet government. Shklovsky's answers are wonderfully intimate, focusing particularly on the years of the early Soviet avant-garde, and his relationships with such figures as Eisenstein and Mayakovsky. Bearing witness to a vanished age whose promise ended in despair, Shklovsky is in great form throughout, summing up a century of triumphs and disappointments, personal and historical.</p>

Shklovsky: Witness to an Era (Russian Literature)

Biographies & Memoirs

Vitale, Serena

Shklovskii, Viktor

Arts & Literature

Dalkey Archive Press

<p>Viktor Shklovskii (1893-1984), a writer and literary critic, was also known as one of the founders of OPOIAZ (Obshchestvo Izucheniie Teorii Poeticheskogo Iazyka). This book includes three of his early autobiographical works: Sentimental'noe Puteshestvie, Zoo, ili Pis'ma ne o Liubvi, Tret'ia Fabrika. The first work starts with the February revolution of 1917. Shklovskii did not accept the next Bolshevik revolution and joined the anti-soviet EsEr plot. The Sentimental Journey and the two other stories describe his participation in the civil war, his emigration to Berlin in 1922, and literary life in Russia in 1910-1920s.</p>

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