Shklovsky: Witness to an Era Nouveau Roman an attractive divorcee caught between

an attractive divorcee caught between her son and father

Though originally denounced as pornographic

When There Were Only Animals

bringing an outsider's—and woman's—perspective to both her adopted home and her native Japan

is "the novel of the indiviual in a world of barbarians

Shklovsky: Witness to an Era Nouveau Roman an attractive divorcee caught betweenShklovsky: Witness to an Era is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection . . . Shklovsky: Witness to an Era is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar Serena Vitale in the '70s, toward the end of the great critics life, and in the face of interference and even veiled threats of violence from the Soviet government. Shklovskys