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Knight's Move
Viktor Shklovsky
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Description for Knight's Move
Paperback. Translator(s): Sheldon, Richard, QC. Series: Scholarly Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 198.
First published in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky, no doubt the most original literary critic and theoretician of the twentieth century, wrote for the newspaper The Life of Art between 1919 and 1921. With his usual epigrammatic, acerbic wit and genius, Shklovsky pillories the bad writers, artists, and critics of his time, especially those who used art as a political or social tool. And at no time is Shklovsky better than when he insists with indignation and outrage that "Art has always been free of life. Its flag has never ... Read more
First published in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky, no doubt the most original literary critic and theoretician of the twentieth century, wrote for the newspaper The Life of Art between 1919 and 1921. With his usual epigrammatic, acerbic wit and genius, Shklovsky pillories the bad writers, artists, and critics of his time, especially those who used art as a political or social tool. And at no time is Shklovsky better than when he insists with indignation and outrage that "Art has always been free of life. Its flag has never ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
143
Condition
New
Series
Scholarly Series
Number of Pages
143
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564783851
SKU
V9781564783851
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About 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".
Reviews for Knight's Move
this masterful set of essays' -Publishers Weekly