Last of the Russian Formalists

More from John Wilson’s review of A Farewell to Arfs, the new Chet and Bernie novel, in Friday’s Washington Examiner:

“You could say, to borrow a term from the great Viktor Shklovsky, leader of the gang known as “the Russian Formalists,” that Quinn defamiliarizes the role of the narrator. And this is both funny, something every devoted reader of the Chet & Bernie series relishes, but also noteworthy for that subset of Quinn’s readers who are particularly interested in the art of fiction.”

Below Viktor and me. Challenge of the day: Guess who’s who.