The second volume of the collection of works of Viktor Shklovsky is devoted to the diversity and inner unity of biographical strategies, thanks to which the style of the narrator determined the fate of the author. The volume combines an early autobiographical trilogy ("Sentimental Journey" CM) "Zoo" , "The Third Factory" , Memories of the Civil War , written and published before its completion, The late memoirs , Returning to the beginning of life and literary career , As well as books and oral recollections of B. Mayakowski, who became for V. Shklovsky is not only a friend, but also a special kind of screen on which he projected ideas about time and about himself. He is not only able to write his own memoirs (O.) but also to write his own memoirs (O.). Brick and B. Khlebnikova, R. Jacobson and S. Eisenstein, Y. Tynyanova and B. Eichenbaum), but also those whose names have long belonged to history (Pushkin and Dostoevsky, Marco Polo and Athanasius Nikitin, Suvorov and Ferdowsi) . Taken together, these works allow us to see the figure of their author in a completely different way, to reveal the connection where we previously saw the gap. The comments trace the additions and changes that the novel “Zoo” has made over 50 years of lifetime reprints.