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Viktor Shklovsky as a Witness to an Era in Russian Literature

"Viktor Shklovsky’s dual role as a master theorist of Russian Formalism and a resilient survivor of 20th-century geopolitical upheaval makes his body of work an indispensable lens through which to examine Soviet and pre-Soviet Russian literature. As both an architect of modern literary criticism and a personal witness to cataclysmic historical shifts, Shklovsky recorded, analyzed, and lived the profound transformations of Russian letters from the Silver Age through the Thaw and beyond. Introduction: The Theorist Who Lived History To understand Russian literature of the 20th century, one must examine the intersection of avant-garde aesthetic th..."

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