Zoo, or Letters Not about Love [Excerpt]
Forthcoming in a new "Dalkey Archive Essentials" version (with a different cover than the one depicted to the right), Zoo, or Letters Not about Love, translated from the Russian by Richard Sheldon, is one of Viktor Shklovsky's most beloved works. An epistolary novel written while Shklovsky was in exile in Berlin—and in ...
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The Good of Dalkey's Catalog [Spring/Summer 2011 Preview]
Now that the University of Rochester’s mail services is back from break, I’m swimming in a sea of books, catalogs, and mailed in donations from our annual campaign. (Well, OK, maybe not swimming in a sea of donations, but thanks to all of you who did donate. And if you haven’t donated, you can by clicking ...
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Viktor Shklovsky in Forward
It’s been out for a couple weeks, but Joshua Cohen’s overview of Viktor Shklovsky’s work in The Jewish Daily Forward is worth reading. Shklovsky was one of the founders of Russian Formalism, a very interesting literary movement that Cohen adequately summarizes: Decades before becoming a Stalinist camp ...
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