Shklovsky, Viktor Borisovich . The Story of Prose . Thoughts and Discourses . Volume 1 (Telling mainly about Western prose). - M. : Fiction, 1966. — Format 84x108/32. Circulation 26 500 copies. Price 96 k. This two-volume book is not a collection of articles, but a book in which the material of the old books is reworked and subordinated to one thought......... The book is based on the following: "The artist is the prose of ." [edit] . [ Reflections and Discourses (1961), in which I have already outlined for myself general views on the development of prose, Notes on the Prose of Russian Classics (1953), For and Against (Notes on Dostoevsky, 1957) and the old book Notes on the Prose of Pushkin (1937). The chapter on Pushkin was remade in the most radical way . The chapter on Gogol has mostly been written all over again. In the book, the author not only revises his old attitudes of the 30s, but tries to build a picture of the development of world prose on the basis of his new views.