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This book reflects the spirit of times-when the most dramatic
events of the 20th century were happening in Russia and the USSR. A
transcription and translation of a 1967-68 interview with the
founder of the Formalist School of literary theory, Viktor
Shklovsky, this volume offers a slice of Russian micro-history,
like the contributions of Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg but even
more trustworthy because it relies on the living voice of that
history. Through the transcription of a six-hour phono-document,
the readers hear the voice of a real participant in events that for
the longest time in the USSR were forbidden to discuss or write
about. Shklovsky, besides being a well-known and brilliant literary
theorist, was a friend and interlocutor of many famous people whose
lives and deaths, up to these days, remain a mystery to us. Through
these informal dialogues that are not constrained by censorship or
fear, we will be able to shed some more light on the real
characters, instincts, habits, and views of those people. By
"listening" to these dialogues, readers will see the reflection of
history in the eyes of a real witness who, in most cases, was just
a good fellow citizen and suffered during those times, like
thousands of others.
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