Third Factory Pa

by Shklovsky,Viktor

• ISBN13: 9781564783172
• ISBN10: 1564783170
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-10-17
• Publisher: JOHN MUIR

Summary

New Preface by Lyn Hejinian, Introduction and,Translation by Richard Sheldon,In part a memoir of the three 'Factories' that,influenced Shklovsky's development as a human,being and as a writer, the events dipicted within,this book are fictionalised and conveyed with the,poetic verve and playfulness of form that have,made Shklovsky a major figure in 20th-century,world literature. First published in a limited,edition in 1977 and now available in paperback,for the first time, THIRD FACTORY is written with,an unerring artist's confidence.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Viktor Shklovsky and the Device of Ostensible Surrender	p. vii
I Continue	p. 3
First Factory
About a Red Elephant	p. 7
I Write about How Objective Reality Determines Consciousness, While the Conscience Remains in Disarray	p. 7
Third Factory	p. 8
The Childhood of a Writer Who Eventually Learned to Be Succinct	p. 9
The Dacha	p. 11
A Multifarious Gymnasium	p. 12
Graduation Time	p. 15
The Debt I Owe My Teacher	p. 16
I Write about Kisses	p. 17
More about the First Factory	p. 18
Second Factory
The Summer after Gymnasium	p. 23
The Voice of a Semiprocessed Commodity	p. 24
I Dog Paddle	p. 26
Sherwood	p. 27
Science and Democracy	p. 28
Doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin	p. 29
Baudouin de Courtenay, Blok, Yakubinsky	p. 30
There Was No Room for a Cannon Shot in the Valley of the Vistula	p. 32
War	p. 32
7 Zhukovsky Street	p. 33
O.M.B.	p. 34
Brik Remained in Absentia	p. 36
Evenings at the Briks	p. 38
To Roman Jakobson, Translator in Residence for the Soviet Embassy in Czechoslovakia	p. 39
About the Second Factory	p. 42
Third Factory
My Native Land	p. 45
The Time Went Its Own Way	p. 47
About the Freedom of Art	p. 49
A Case Ineptly Pleaded by Me	p. 54
Spring and a Bit of Summer	p. 55
What They Are Making Out of Me	p. 57
An Experience That I Had	p. 58
Letter to Tynyanov	p. 60
Letter to Boris Eikhenbaum	p. 62
Letter to Lev Yakubinsky	p. 63
Envy Bay	p. 65
The Airplane Flew like a Wounded Beetle	p. 76
Voronezh District and Platonov	p. 77
Cheap Motors	p. 79
Subsequently	p. 80
The Fields of Other Districts	p. 81
A Second Childhood	p. 82
The Third Factory	p. 84
Afterword	p. 86
Afterword	p. 101
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