Translator's introduction -- OPOYAZ publications -- Autobiographic hybrids -- Early Soviet criticism and advice to young writers -- After the freeze -- On the theory of prose (1983) -- In 60 years: works on cinema (1985). Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was both patriarch and enfa…
Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was both patriarch and enfant terrible of Formalism, a literary and film scholar, a fiction writer and the protagonist of other people's novels, instructor of an armored division and professor at the Art History Institute, revolutionary and counterre…