Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot

by Victor Shklovsky

Available in English for the first time, Energy of Delusion provides contemporary readers with a new way of thinking about how great literature is written (and how great criticism might be) that is as timely today as ever.

One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls "loiterature"--writing that roams, playfully digresses, moving freely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564784266
• ISBN13: 9781564784261
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.9"