Serena Vitale is a professor of Russian language and literature at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. She is the author of numerous books and essays on Russian literature, and has also translated many Russian novels into Italian. Her acclaimed biographical work "Pushkin's" "Button" was translated into English in 1999. Serena Vitale is a professor of Russian language and literature at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. She is the author of numerous books and essays on Russian literature, and has also translated many Russian novels into Italian. Her acclaimed biographical work "Pushkin's" "Button" was translated into English in 1999.
"When Serena Vitale traveled to Moscow, proposing to gather Viktor
Shklovsky's thoughts and memories in a book-length interview, the
writer was furious: 'How, ' he cried, 'can you write a book in ten
days?'--This from the mercurial figure who had written articles,
novels, essays, screenplays; everything, as he said, apart from
poetry and denunciations . . . But the intelligent interviewer
persevered, and won the day: the dialogue took place in Moscow at
the end of December 1978, in exceptional weather, one of the
coldest winters of the century . . . [and became] an opportunity
[for Shklovsky] to revive, with his dazzling images, the vitality
of movements past, to honor the passions of artists and poets."
When Serena Vitale traveled to Moscow, proposing to gather Viktor
Shklovsky s thoughts and memories in a book-length interview, the
writer was furious: How, he cried, can you write a book in ten days
This from the mercurial figure who had written articles, novels,
essays, screenplays; everything, as he said, apart from poetry and
denunciations . . . But the intelligent interviewer persevered, and
won the day: the dialogue took place in Moscow at the end of
December 1978, in exceptional weather, one of the coldest winters
of the century . . . [and became] an opportunity [for Shklovsky] to
revive, with his dazzling images, the vitality of movements past,
to honor the passions of artists and poets.
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