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A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922

Name: A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922
Author: Viktor Shklovsky
ISBN: 9781564783547

by Viktor Shklovsky, Richard Sheldon (Translator), Sidney Monas

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Overview

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 Valuable as a historical document for its first-hand account of the events during the period of 1917-1922, A Sentimental Journey is also an important experimental literary work—a memoir in the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.

Synopsis

"One would be hard pressed to decide whether the book is more notable for what it says or for how it says it . . . Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey is highly recommended."—Library Journal

About the Author, Viktor Shklovsky

Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was a leading figure in the Russian Formalist movement of the 1920s and had a profound effect on twentieth-century Russian literature. Several of his books have been translated into English, including Zoo, or Letters Not about Love, Third Factory, Theory of Prose, A Sentimental Journey, Energy of Delusion, and Literature and Cinematography, and Bowstring.

Richard Sheldon has translated many of Viktor Shklovsky's books. Formerly a postgraduate student at University of Michigan and currently an Emeritus Professor of Russian at Dartmouth, Sheldon has taught courses on Chekhov, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy, and Nabokov.