A Hunt for Optimism by Shushan Avagyan, Victor Shklovsky

A Hunt for Optimism

Shushan Avagyan, Victor Shklovsky

160 pages first pub 1931 (editions)

fiction art challenging reflective slow-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 h...

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