About this title: 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 Although valuable as a historical document, A Sentimental Journey is also an important experimental literary work--a memoir in the form of a novel.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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell University Press [
Date Published: 1970]
Description: Translated from Russian by Richard Sheldon. Original Russian publication 1923. Very good hardcover in like DJ. --"Memoir in the form of a novel. " read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PR
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781564783547ISBN:1564783545
Description: New. 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... read more
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