The Hamburg Score

by Victor Shklovsky

The Hamburg Score (Gamburgsky schyot) is "a very important concept," wrote Viktor Shklovsky, the famous Russian literary critic and founder of Russian formalism, in 1928. All wrestlers cheat in performance and allow themselves to lose a fight at the behest of the organizers. But once a year wrestlers gather in Hamburg and fight in private among themselves. It is a long, hard, ugly competition. But this is the only way that they can reveal their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628971673
• ISBN13: 9781628971675
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"