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Loading... Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot (edition 2007)by Viktor Shklovsky
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"Energy of Delusion is a seminal work by one of the leading figures of Russian Formalism. Started in 1969 and completed in 1981 (when Viktor Shklovsky was 88), it mixes biography with literary theory in an expansive study of the novel form, encompassing the works of Tolstoy, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Pushkin, Chekhov, Dostoyevski, Sterne, Twain, and many others."--BOOK JACKET. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.733Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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