Sara Angela Rodriguez
A415-002/Chambers
Fiction Critique 3: How I Write
31 January 2013
When if first read this piece I didn’t know why it was
classified as experimental fiction. It looked like a regular first person
narrative discussing not only how, but why, Viktor Shklovsky writes. I believed
that this was an essay written as a general response to the question “how do
you write?” and I honestly didn’t find anything special/experimental in it
besides his direct addresses to the audience and to his environment (one
example being when he addresses the typist in the room by saying “the typist,
the same one typing up this essay, retypes my pieces with the page numbers”). It
was not until I reached the end of the piece and saw the questionnaire which prompted
the writing of this essay that I realized that this entire piece was developed
out of what were short answers to the questions. The piece, does not seem like
it was written to answer any specific questions and in reality it doesn’t. It
is a general piece that uses the questions as guidelines to a larger more
comprehensive essay. I think that the way that Shklovsky writes his response is
fantastic! The piece works very well in this format because of its smooth
transitions from one answer to another. I think that the only thing I would
have done differently with this piece is find a way to bring the audience in to
the world of writing just a little bit more. I really what was written on page
three because here Shklovsky not only introduces authors and themes he is familiar
with but shows us, through the portrayal of
“the journalists need [for] integrity, and courage” how stories are
made/told.
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