| A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922 Contributor(s): Shklovsky, Viktor (Author), Sheldon, Richard (Translator), Monas, Sidney (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1564783545 ISBN-13: 9781564783547 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2004 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 Although valuable as a historical document, A Sentimental Journey is also an important experimental literary work--a memoir in the form of a novel.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. |
| Additional Information |
| 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 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Valuable as a historical document for its first-hand account of the events during the period of 1917-1922, "A Sentimental Journey" is also an important experimental literary work--a memoir in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. |