Yury Tynyanov
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| Born | Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov October 18, 1894 Rezhitsa, Russian Empire |
| Died | December 20, 1943 (aged 49) Moscow, USSR |
| Occupation | Writer, screenwriter, translator, literary critic, scholar |
| Language | Russian |
| Notable works | Lieutenant Kijé |
Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов; October 18, 1894 – December 20, 1943) was a famous Soviet, Russian writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school.
Yury Tynyanov was born in Rezhitsa, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Rēzekne, Latvia). His brother-in-law was Veniamin Kaverin, another well-known Russian author. While attending the Petrograd University, Tynyanov frequented the Pushkin seminar held by a venerable literary academic, Semyon Vengerov. His first works made their appearance in print in 1921.
In 1928, together with the linguist Roman Jakobson, he published a famous work titled Theses on Language, a predecessor to structuralism (but see Ferdinand de Saussure), which could be summarised in the following manner (from):
Tynyanov also wrote historical novels in which he applied his theories. His other works included popular biographies of Alexander Pushkin and Wilhelm Küchelbecker and notable translations of Heinrich Heine and other authors.
He died of multiple sclerosis in Moscow.
Works by Yury Tynyanov
Works edited by Yury Tynyanov
Novels:
Novellas and stories:
On Pushkin and his era:
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