Zoo, or Letters Not about Love
Viktor Shklovsky author Richard Sheldon translator Richard Sheldon editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Published:29th Aug '24
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While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here cover everything from observations about contemporary German and Russian life to theories of art and literature, nonetheless every one of them is indirectly dedicated to the one topic they are all required to avoid: their author's own unrequited love.
“Shklovsky revitalizes the traditional epistolary novel.”—Choice
ISBN: 9781628974966
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164 pages