A Hunt for Optimism

by Victor Shklovsky

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Begun in 1929 under the title "New Prose," and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky's sudden death, "A Hunt for Optimism" (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Using multiple perspectives, fragments, and aphorisms, and bearing the vulnerability of both the Russian Jewry and the anti-Bolshevik intelligentsia--who had unwittingly become the "enemies...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1564787907

ISBN13:9781564787903

Release Date:January 2013

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Length:160 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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