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2 unusual facts about Viktor Shklovsky


Alex Hills

His most substantial work to date is 'Everything in Life can be Montaged', an hour long piece for soprano, 2 solo celli, percussion, ensemble and electronics based on ideas and texts by the Russian thinker Viktor Shklovsky.

Viktor Shklovsky

In Berlin, in 1923, he published his memoirs about the period 1917–22 under the title Сентиментальное путешествие, воспоминания (Sentimental'noe puteshestvie, vospominaniia, A Sentimental Journey), alluding to A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne, an author he much admired and whose digressive style had a powerful influence on Shklovsky's writing.


Alexander Osmerkin

There his circle included such names as poet Osip Mandelstam, writers Osip Brik and Viktor Shklovsky, as well as his fellow artists from the "Bubnovy Valet" group.

Arkadiy Belinkov

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy and Viktor Shklovsky interceded for him: the execution was replaced by eight years of imprisonment in Karlag (Karaganda Gulag branch).


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