A Hunt for Optimism (paperback) Автор: Шкловский Виктор Борисович; Издательство: Dalkey Archive Press (США) Год издания: 2013 ISBN: ISBN-10: 1564787907; ISBN-13: 978-1564787903 Язык: русский

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Begun in 1929 under the title "New Prose," and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky`s sudden death, A Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Using multiple perspectives, fragments, and aphorisms, and bearing the vulnerability of both the Russian Jewry and the anti-Bolshevik intelligentsia -- who had unwittingly become the "enemies of the people" -- Hunt satirizes Soviet censorship and the ineptitude of Soviet leaders with acerbic panache. Despite criticism at the time that it lacked unity and was too "variegated" to be called a purely "Shklovskian book," Hunt is stylistically unpredictable, experimentally bold, and unapologetically ironic -- making it one of the finest books in Shklovsky`s body of work.