One of the most significant literary critics of the last century, Viktor Shklovsky (1883-1984) was a leading theorist and a founder of the Formalism school of literary criticism. Shklovsky's work is aphoristic, essayistic, at times startlingly thought-provoking, and, as is not always the case among literary theorists, eminently readable, even for the uninitiated. Despite the appearance in recent years of biographies and several never-before translated texts, Shklovsky is still not well-served in English. Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader presents fresh new translations of key texts as well as important work that has not appeared in English before. His theoretical writing is interspersed with excerpts from memoirs and letters that illuminate the essays.
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