Life of a Bishop’s Assistant

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ISBN-10: 1628971746
ISBN-13: 9781628971743
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 07/21/2017
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.40" H

Life of a Bishop’s Assistant

byViktor Shklovsky
Translator: Valeriya Yermishova

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Overview

Life of a Bishop’s Assistant is a “rewritten” biography of the 18th century historical figure, Gavriil Dobrinin. The son of a priest, he became an assistant to a bishop before being fortunate to rise all the way to gubernia procurator. Despite the obscurity of Dobrinin, it is Shklovsky’s narration of his story that takes center stage. Like Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, Life of a Bishop’s Assistant is a notable example of experimentation with narrative form in the early twentieth century by one of its leading theorists.

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"In their heterogeneity, their subversive undercurrents, their way of achieving inclusion through use of digression while simultaneously using digressions as means of being pointed, the works of Viktor Shklovsky are so appropriate to our contemporary situation as to seem to have been written for us. His writings do precisely what he has said it is art's goal to do: they 'restore . . . sensation of the world, ' they 'resurrect things and kill pessimism.'"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1628971746
ISBN-13: 9781628971743
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 07/21/2017
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.40" H
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