The Hamburg Score

Zusatztext "A rambling, digressive stylist, Shklovsky throws off brilliant aperçus on every page . . . Like an architect's blueprint, it lays bare the joists and studs that hold up the house of fiction." -Washington Post Informationen zum Autor A leading figure in the Russian Formalist movement of the 1920s, Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) had a profound effect on twentieth-century Russian literature. Several of his books have been translated into English, including , Theory of Prose , Knight's Move , and A Hunt for Optimism , all available from Dalkey Archive Press. Shushan Avagyan translates from Armenian and Russian. She is the translator of Viktor Shklovsky's Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar , A Hunt for Optimism , and other works available from Dalkey Archive Press. Klappentext Originally published in Russian by Izdatelstvo Pisatelei v Leningrade in 1928. Zusammenfassung The Hamburg Score (Gamburgsky schyot) is “a very important concept,” wrote Viktor Shklovsky, the famous Russian literary critic and founder of Russian formalism, in 1928. All wrestlers cheat in performance and allow themselves to lose a fight for the organizers. But once a year wrestlers gather in Hamburg and fight in private among themselves.

Product details

• Authors: Viktor Shklovskii, Viktor Shklovsky, Viktor/ Avagyan Shklovsky
• Assisted by: Shushan Avagyan (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781628971675
• ISBN: 978-1-62897-167-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Russian Literature Series; Russian Literature; Russian Literature Series; Russian Literature; RUS Russian Literature Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies