A Sentimental Journey (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Viktor Shklovsky
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1917-1922
- Setting: Petrograd, Persia, Galicia, Ukraine, and Berlin
- Principal Characters: The Narrator
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Sentimental fiction
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Authors or writers, Revolutions, 1910’s, 1920’s, War, World War I, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Russian Revolution, Berlin, Persia, Futurism
- Locales: Berlin, Germany, Ukraine, Persia, Galicia, Petrograd, Russia
The Novel
A Sentimental Journey is a novel difficult to describe or categorize. Its narrative line emerges only in discontinuous episodes, memories, character studies, and literary discussions. Yet the cumulative effect of these separate pieces communicates in very personal terms the sweep of events in the revolutions and civil war bringing the Soviet Union into being. The novel is a literary experiment growing out of the commitment of Viktor Shklovsky and other Russian Formalist literary critics to the renewal of Russian prose in the first quarter of the...
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