Zoo Or Letters Not About Love Pa

by Shklovsky,Viktor

• ISBN13: 9781564783110
• ISBN10: 1564783111
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-10-17
• Publisher: Ingram Book Co

Summary

Introduction and translation by Richard Sheldon,In love with Elsa Triolet, Shlovsky was in the,habit of sending her several letters a day, a,situation she accepted with one condition: he was,forbidden from writing about love. ZOO was born,out of that constraint, and although unrequited,love surrounds the letters, their actual subject,matter ranges from observations on contemporary,Berlin and Russia to digressions on art and,literature and thumbnail portraits of famous,Russian writers and artists. An experimental,epistolary novel.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface	v
Introduction	xiii
ZOO, or Letters Notabout Love First Edition (1923)	1	(104)
Prefaces and Letters Added to Later Editions	105	(30)
Postscript (from A Sentimental Journey)	135	(2)
Transliteration System	137	(2)
Notes	139	(24)
Index of Names	163