Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (1893–1984) - writer, literary critic, critic, film screenwriter, “leader of the formalists” and “chief adjuster of OPOYAZ”, “enfant terrible of Russian formalism”, a bright character in the literary life of the twenties and thirties. Shklovsky’s life was long, varied and rich. This is how this book turned out. “The Resurrection of the Word” and “Art as a Technique”, which became the manifesto of OPOYAZ; excerpts from the biographical prose “The Third Factory” and “Once Upon a Time”; fragments of the textbook on literary creativity for the proletariat “Technique of the Writing Craft”; “The Hamburg Account” and memoirs “About Mayakovsky”; letters to his beloved grandson and much more THE MOST SHKLOYAN from the point of view of the book’s compiler Alexandra Berlina.