Shklovsky and Tolstoy: a moral of estrangement
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2019.162484Keywords:
Tolstoy, Shklovsky, EstrangementAbstract
When in his essay “Art as Procedure” Viktor Chklovski used some excerpts from Liev Tolstoy as an example of what he defined as a “process of estrangement” (ostranenie), bearing in mind a very characteristic stylistic feature of the author, he gave us an important key to understand his work. However, while in the same essay he tried to explain the function of estrangement in art and literature, he did not really specify the function of this process in Tolstoy's work – to what particular effect it served –, but merely verified its existence. In this paper, I will reflect on some aspects and passages of Tolstoy's work, seeking to understand the functions of what Chklovski identified in it as a process of estrangement, in light of the broader considerations that the critic has developed in his essays.
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