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Viktor Shklovsky

Died in 1984

Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984), born in Saint Petersburg, studied at the university of the city and in 1916 founded, with other young scholars, the Society for the Study of Poetic Language, the focus of Russian formalism. During the Great War, he was an instructor in the armoured units. Opposed to the Bolsheviks, he took part in a plot against them, then made his way to Finland in 1922 and to Berlin, before returning in 1923. He then devoted a large part of his work to cinema and died in Moscow in December 1984.

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