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Horn, Richard. Encyclopedia. New York: Grove, 1969. (Out of print.) I didn’t finish this novel, or rather, I didn’t read all of it. I really couldn’t get myself to, it’s not very good at all. So why I am bothering to review an out of print book that I didn’t like? Well, there’s an idea [...]

I’ve been thinking about Victor Shklovsky’s concept of ostraniene, a neologism in Russian traditionally translated as “defamiliarization” but also, in the edition of his Theory of Prose (1929) that I have (Trans. by Benjamin Sher, Dalkey Archive, 1990), as “enstrangement”. The idea being that when we are familiar with something we no longer see it; [...]