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- Author: Viktor Shklovsky
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Epistolary
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: A Russian émigré colony in Berlin
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: Culture, Love or romance, Exile or expatriates, Literature, Writing, 1920’s, Criticism, Lifestyles, Biography, Berlin
- Locales: Berlin, Germany
Characters Discussed
Viktor Shklovsky (VIHK-tohr SHKLOV-skee), the narrator, a Russian novelist, literary critic, and political émigré living in Berlin after the consolidation of Bolshevik power in the Soviet Union. The narrator is in love with the woman to whom he writes the letters that form the novel; she does not reciprocate the narrator’s feelings. She does, however, allow him to write to her as long as he does not write about his love. Because he cannot write what he wishes, he writes about what interests him: the theory of literature; literary friends in Berlin and...
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