Шкловский Виктор. О теории прозы

In his last lifetime book, the outstanding domestic literary critic and prose writer Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (1893–1984), one of the founders of the Society for the Study of Poetic Language (OPOYAZ), the ideologist of the Serapion Brothers group, a brilliant literary theorist, returns to the old theoretical reflections on literature, rethinking and deepening the views and concepts known from his work in the 1920s. These are deeply meaningful explanations of the old writer about classical and modern prose. From the content: About the theory of prose. 1929 (Art as a technique. - The connection of plot composition techniques with general style techniques). - On the theory of prose. 1982 (Words free the soul from tightness. A story about OPOYAZ. - Poetry rhyme. Prose rhyme. Structuralism and looking glass). - Fairy tale and word. - The links of art do not repeat each other. Again about the similarity of the dissimilar (“Notes of a Hunter” by Turgenev. - Stern. - Dickens. - The paths leading to the construction of works intersect. Doublings and parallelisms. - The image has replaced the word. Cinema. - The problem of time in art). - Legend of the Grand Inquisitor. The sky is shaking. - How David defeated Goliath (Oedipus. Shakespeare. Three sisters: Antigone, Cordelia, Anna Karenina). – The Copper Sword, or the Final Chapter on Don Quixote.