About this title: 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 ...
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Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. :
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781564784261ISBN:1564784266
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 428 p. Russian Literature. Audience: General/trade. A fine copy in pictorial wraps; 1st printing. Small indentation to back cover, otherwise, an unread, (new) book, 8vo., 428 read more
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Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign, IL
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781564784261ISBN:1564784266
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Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Date Published: 2007-07-01
ISBN-13:9781564784261ISBN:1564784266
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Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Date Published: 2007
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Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781564784261ISBN:1564784266
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