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A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922
Contributor(s): Shklovsky, Viktor (Author), Sheldon, Richard (Translator), Monas, Sidney (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1564783545     ISBN-13: 9781564783547
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
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Product Type: Paperback
Published: March 2004
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Annotation: Borrowing his title from Laurence Sterne, Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey describes the travels of a bewildered intellectual through Russia, Persia, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus during the period of the Russian Revolution. Although valuable as a historical document, A Sentimental Journey is also an important experimental literary work--a memoir in the form of a novel. Like the rest of Shklovsky's fictional works, his writing illustrates the literary theories of the Russian Formalists, such as abrupt shifts in time, enstrangments, and digressions (also found in Sterne). At times lyrical, disturbing, ironic, and erudite, A Sentimental Journey is a singular book from one of the most recognizable and influential voices of twentieth-century Russian literature.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2003070088
Series: Russian Literature Series
Physical Information: 1.04" H x 5.58" W x 8.51" (1.04 lbs) 304 pages
 
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Viktor Shklovsky's "A Sentimental Journey," which borrows its title from Laurence Sterne, describes the travels of a bewildered intellectual through Russia, Persia, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus during the period of the Russian Revolution. Valuable as a historical document for its first-hand account of the events during the period of 1917-1922, "A Sentimental Journey" is also an important experimental literary work--a memoir in the form of a novel.

At times lyrical, disturbing, ironic, and erudite, "A Sentimental Journey" is a singular book from one of the most recognizable and influential voices of twentieth-century Russian literature.