# Viktor Shklovsky

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It came to my attention in Russia by Antony Beevor, a British military historian whom I have followed since he wrote the astonishing Stalingrad, the story of the Devil’s apprentice that he quotes from Sentimental Journey by Viktor Shklovsky. In the story, to reforge the old man into a young one, th…

🐴 Listen now | Remaining Fiercely Free in an Unfree World

⚡️ This colorful, powerful piece is an homage to the American Paint Horse as well as, more importantly, the iconic Western mustang, a free-ranging horse descended from those imported to the Americas by the Spanish. 🗽 Mustangs are typically thought of as “wild horses” and, in this spirit, UNBROKEN i…

Poor Things Review

When Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last year, many critics were blown away by it, but unsure whether or not it would be “too weird” for the Academy. Months later, the fantastical dark comedy would win four Oscars: Production Design, Makeup and Hai…

Selected Essays | Jennifer Wilson on Viktor Shklovsky

On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Jennifer Wilson abouther New York Times Book Review essay, “The Love Letters That Spoke of Everything but Love,” and Viktor Shklovsky’s “Art as Device,” first published in 1917.Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point here and use the…

Nabeel Qureshi

Nabeel Qureshi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Nabeel S. Qureshi is an entrepreneur and researcher specializing in artificial intelligence and healthcare. He is the CEO of a new startup company and a Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. N…

Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shklovsky: Preaching lessons from Russian literature

The parable of the persistent widow. Again. Scholar, poet, and preacher Cameron Bellm has heard it a hundred times—so she turned to Russian literature for help. Drawing on Viktor Shklovsky’s ostranenie, the art of making the familiar strange, she reveals how to jolt ancient parables back to life. “…

TMR 31.8: "A Humanizing of Human Beings" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]

This week, Kaija, Chad, and Brian talk about how well Morgner landed the plane, the ethics of recommending books to bar patrons, what the second and third volumes of this trilogy might be like, how the book works as parody, Viktor Shklovsky, and much more. This week’s music is “Detachable Penis” b…

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS – 19 Years of Distance

NOTE: This episode contains MAJOR spoilers. If you haven’t seen the film yet, you might want to hit pause and come back when you’re ready. Nineteen years separate Susan Morrow from the man she once loved. Then a manuscript arrives. Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals uses fiction, memory, color, compositi…

1865 || when it's all too familiar, make life strange

When things become familiar, we ignore their magic. Defamiliarization is a way to reclaim that magic. It's a way to renew our perception and reclaim meaning. It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and a…

Viktor Shklovsky (1893–1984) and the theory of prose

28 May 2026 Image: Ivan Shishkin, Autumn Landscape (1894, detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-shishkin/autumn-landscape-path-in-the-forest-1894