Yury Tynyanov

Yury Tynyanov (1894-1943), born in Rezhitsa, now Rēzekne in Latvia, studied history and philology at the University of Saint Petersburg and specialised in Russian literature of the early nineteenth century. Together with Shklovsky and Eichenbaum, he was one of the figures of Russian formalism, within the Opoyaz. Attacks from Marxist criticism turned him away from theory, and he devoted himself to the historical novel and to editing poets. Suffering from multiple sclerosis, he died in Moscow on 20 December 1943.

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• NovelКюхляYury Tynyanov · 1925not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain