Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922 (Russian Literature Series)

"Shklovsky is a disciple worthy of Sterne. He has appropriated the device of infinitely delayed events, of the digression helplessly promising to return to the point, and of disguising his superbly controlled art with a breezy nonchalance. But it is not really Sterne that Shklovsky sounds like: it is an intellectual and witty Hemingway."

"One would be hard pressed to decide whether the book is more notable for what it says or for how it says it... Viktor Shklovsky's "A Sentimental Journey" is highly recommended." -- "Library Journal"

One would be hard pressed to decide whether the book is more notable for what it says or for how it says it... Viktor Shklovsky's "A Sentimental Journey" is highly recommended.--"Library Journal"

Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey, which borrows its title from Laurence Sterne, describes the travels of a bewildered intellectual through Russia, Persia, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus during the period of the Russian Revolution. Valuable as a historical document for its first-hand account of the events during the period of 1917-1922, A Sentimental Journey is also an important experimental literary work—a memoir in the form of a novel.

At times lyrical, disturbing, ironic, and erudite, A Sentimental Journey is a singular book from one of the most recognizable and influential voices of twentieth-century Russian literature.