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Rearranging the Furniture

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For prose scholar Viktor Shklovsky, who lived by the
code of style and studied its depths, an unhappy love affair can be as
much a personal tragedy as a plot device for more writing.

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Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman is a doctoral candidate in literature at Stanford University. She is also a contributor to the literary...

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