A Hunt for Optimism by Viktor Shklovsky

A Hunt for Optimism

Viktor Shklovsky with Shushan Avagyan (Translator)

160 pages first pub 1931 (editions)

fiction classics literary reflective medium-paced
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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...

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