Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and Interviews

Synopsis of the Art and Literary Work, Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and Interviews Are you still wondering who is that boy at the beginning of Bergman's Persona and what the damn movie is all about? And what is the point of those near-silent seven minutes at the end of Antonioni's L'Eclisse? And what happens if you break the rules that Shklovsky thinks are the foundation of prose? And how would The Great Gatsby sound if written in super short sentences? And what about that big 450 page-long joke of a book Three Blondes and Death that was more than 20 years in the making? And ditto about the Modus Tollens: Improvised Poetic Devices collection the author calls heuristic poetry? You can find out this and much, much more in Yuriy Tarnawsky's Claim to Oblivion which readers call "terrific." About the Author, Yuriy Tarnawsky Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored some three dozen books of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and translations in Ukrainian and English, including the novels Meningitis,