Collected Works. Volume 4. Everyday Life – Viktor Shklovsky – New Literary Review – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-4448-3066-6
Collected Works. Volume 4. Everyday Life
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Collected Works. Volume 4. Everyday Life
29.99 €
The fourth volume of Viktor Shklovsky's collected works, Everyday Life, brings together works in which one of the founders of Formalism addresses issues of everyday life, literary labor, and the social existence of literature. The volume's conceptual center is the category of "literary everyday life," which defined an important stage in the development of late Formalism in the 1920s and 1930s. The shift from the question of "how to write" to the formulation of "how to be a writer" was dictated, on the one hand, by the end of the revolutionary era and, on the other, by an attempt to find a compromise between Formalism and Marxist criticism. The texts collected in this volume demonstrate how Shklovsky, through his exploration of literary everyday life, the history of literary institutions, and everyday cultural life, attempted to maintain continuity with the Formalist project while simultaneously adapting it to new ideological and cultural realities.
The first section of the volume, "Search for Language," brings together the editorial preface to "Literature and Commerce," the sociological trilogy "Material and Style in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace," "Matvey Komarov, a Resident of Moscow," and "Chulkov and Levshin," as well as magazine and newspaper articles on literary and literary life.
The second section, "Search for Speech," unfolds a panorama of Shklovsky's everyday writing: it includes correspondence from the 1920s, the note books "Searching for Optimism" and "Diary," articles on Soviet literature and national literatures, and concludes with notes from conversations with Shklovsky himself.
The first section of the volume, "Search for Language," brings together the editorial preface to "Literature and Commerce," the sociological trilogy "Material and Style in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace," "Matvey Komarov, a Resident of Moscow," and "Chulkov and Levshin," as well as magazine and newspaper articles on literary and literary life.
The second section, "Search for Speech," unfolds a panorama of Shklovsky's everyday writing: it includes correspondence from the 1920s, the note books "Searching for Optimism" and "Diary," articles on Soviet literature and national literatures, and concludes with notes from conversations with Shklovsky himself.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Collected Works