Shklovsky, Viktor Borisovich . Aunt . The difference between similar. - M. , "The Soviet Writer", 1970, 376 pages. — Format 84x108/32. Circulation 35,000 copies. Price 86 k. New book by Viktor Shklovsky "Tetiv . About the dissimilarity of similar" is written in that particular genre of fascinating narrative, which the author himself defined as "the story of prose" .. This time Viktor Shklovsky devotes his work to such important problems of the theory of literature and art. as a question of the convention of a work of art and its unity , On the role of the author's worldview and the heroes depicted by him , The internal dynamics , The Conflict , Building an Artistic Image . [ ) Along with the theoretical analysis and sharp chapters, the reader will find in this book pages of living memories of major researchers of literature - Boris Eichenbaum and Yuri Tynyanov, as well as memories of their own theoretical searches.......... In them, the author often argues with himself, clearly confirming with his example how time shapes and changes the views of the artist and theoretician .......... The researcher attracts the most extensive material - from the books of ancient and medieval authors to the literature of our days. He refers to the Babylonian epic and novels of the Italian Renaissance, to the tragedies of Shakespeare, to the novels of Cervantes and Fielding. Lesage and Dickens, to Thomas Mann's epic Joseph and His Brothers, as well as to the modern American novel