Sep 30, 2026 · 54 min · 11 segments
Welcome to The Lost Shelf - the series where we invite authors to rescue their favourite neglected works of literature from obscurity. In Episode Two, Art O'Connor and Camilla Grudova discuss "Zoo…
Camilla GrudovaGuest
So yeah, that is just a form of kind of writing about the world, as I said, in a, in a way to make you see it in a new way, in an unfamiliar way.
I forget precisely his wording, but he talked about how literature should commit some kind of violence on ordinary language.
But it was Shklovsky who wrote the kind of central text and developed the most sophisticated ideas, even though he was only 23 or 24-
And it's not clear whether he actually meant for what is essentially a formal insight to be elevated into some kind of like universal theory of art.
Like it seems to neglect so much of, you know, like you read a Dostoevsky novel, it's not because it's refreshing your perception that it's good.
It's this kind of sustained moral reflection on whatever, faith, on responsibility and, you know, all these different concepts.
So yeah, that is just a form of kind of writing about the world, as I said, in a, in a way to make you see it in a new way, in an unfamiliar way.
I forget precisely his wording, but he talked about how literature should commit some kind of violence on ordinary language.
But it was Shklovsky who wrote the kind of central text and developed the most sophisticated ideas, even though he was only 23 or 24-
And it's not clear whether he actually meant for what is essentially a formal insight to be elevated into some kind of like universal theory of art.
Like it seems to neglect so much of, you know, like you read a Dostoevsky novel, it's not because it's refreshing your perception that it's good.
It's this kind of sustained moral reflection on whatever, faith, on responsibility and, you know, all these different concepts.
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