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Title:
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A HUNT FOR OPTIMISM
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By: |
Viktor Shklovsky, Shushan Avagyan |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£11.99 |
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£9.89 |
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ISBN 10: |
1564787907 |
ISBN 13: |
9781564787903 |
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Publisher: |
DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS |
Pub. date: |
3 January, 2013 |
Pages: |
160 |
Synopsis: |
Begun in 1929 under the title "New Prose," and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky's sudden death, A Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Using multiple perspectives, fragments, and aphorisms, and bearing the vulnerability of both the Russian Jewry and the anti-Bolshevik intelligentsia--who had unwittingly become the "enemies of the people"--Hunt satirizes Soviet censorship and the ineptitude of Soviet leaders with acerbic panache. Despite criticism at the time that it lacked unity and was too "variegated" to be called a purely "Shklovskian book," Hunt is stylistically unpredictable, experimentally bold, and unapologetically ironic--making it one of the finest books in Shklovsky's body of work. |
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US |
Imprint: |
Dalkey Archive Press |
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