Zoo or Letters Not About Love (Russian Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Zoo or Letters Not About Love (Russian Literature (Dalkey Archive))
ISBN: 9781564783110
出版社: Dalkey Archive Press
出版年: 2001-10
页数: 164
定价: USD 11.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Viktor Shklovsky was living in exile in Berlin when he wrote this experimental epistolary novel. In love with Elsa Triolet (referred to as Alya in this novel), Shklovsky was in the habit of sending her several letters a day, a situation Elsa 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.