Russian literary theorist and critic Shklovskii (1893-1984) proclaimed often and forcefully how he was influenced by British novelist Laurence Stern (1713-60) and his major work, Tristan
Shandy, but Finer (Russian literature, U. of St. Andrews, Scotland) finds that the relationship between them has never been examined in detail. She gets down to work, looking at the background
to his reception of foreign literature, his reception of the 18th-century English novel, he reads Tristan Shandy literary reception in practice, and literary history. One thing the later writer
learned from the earlier, she says, was to proclaim the success of their work in the work itself. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc.,
Portland, OR (booknews.com)
