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by Viktor Shklovsky Translated by Richard Sheldon Original title: Zoo
While living in exile in Berlin, Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet (the "Alya" of thi
s novel). Shklovsky was in the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about L (more...)
by Viktor Shklovsky Translated by Richard Sheldon Original title: Tret'ia fabrika
Like many of Shklovsky's works, Third Factory
cannot be neatly classified. In part it is a memoir of the three "Factories" that influenced his development as a human being and as a writer, yet the events depicted within the book are fict
ionalized and conveyed with the poetic verve and (more...)
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