[Sandra Petrignani. Panorama, 25 August 1999]
Viktor Sÿklovskij, The job of the writer and his technique , Liberal
With the boom of writing schools and the proliferation of manuals to learn to write, it is surprising that it had not been This intelligence still operate translated by Viktor Sÿklovskij, output in the USSR in 1927. He did it now Pia Pera, reinventing the pen of the most sympathetic light between the Russian formalists, that group of brilliant 'disassemblers' of literary texts that also counted in its ranks, Roman Jakobson, Boris Eikhenbaum and many others.
'I really wish there could be a better teacher of writing' comments Emanuele Trevi in \u200b\u200ba beautiful introduction. It is absolutely right. The author of the famous Theory of Prose (published in '25) in this booklet summarizes the working class to use the golden rules to make up news stories and original stories. It is a teaching against the boredom and clichés, never losing sight of the fact that literature is an art slippery disorderly and anarchic, in which the technical rules can be generalized only choice.
But what are these rules? First of all 'become aware of a player' is not given writer who does not initiate a strong player. Then 'we must learn to sit for a long time'. Then keep diaries and sketchbooks. Then 'search for an exact definition for everything'. Then hurry 'to put the'. Then 're-read as often as possible what is written'. Elementary my dear Watson? Undoubtedly yes, but in this abc of writing Sÿklovskij sa lavish, with its famous spirit, small useful insights. If you do not become writers, read great he analyzed: Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, Dostoevsky. A lesson in 'formal', Vittorio Strada observes in the preface, to be part of a maestro 'of Russian literature of the 20 best'.
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