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- Works
- 10
Top works
- Journey to the Land of Movies (new Ed. )
- Mayakovsky and His Circle
- Zoo, or Letters Not about Love
- Bowstring - On the Dissimilarity of the Similar
- Viaje Sentimetal. Memorias de 1917-1922
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Film & TV
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Known for
- Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel — Self (archive footage)2009
- The Kuleshov Effect — Self1969
- House of the Dead — Petrashevsky1932
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Key facts
- Born
- Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky , 24 January [ O.S. 12 January ] 1893, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
- Died
- 6 December 1984 (1984-12-06) (aged 91), Moscow, Soviet Union
- Alma mater
- Saint Petersburg Imperial University
- School
- Russian Formalism
- Main interests
- Literary theory , Literary criticism
- Notable works
- Воскрешение слова (1914) , Art as Device (1917) , Zoo, or Letters Not About Love (1923), Theory of Prose (1925)
- Notable ideas
- Ostranenie (1917)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Viktor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Saint Petersburg
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Genre
- essay
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- Viktor Shklovsky.jpg
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- place of burial
- Kuntsevo Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1893-01-24
- date of death
- 1984-12-06
- Commons category
- Viktor Shklovsky
- affiliation
- Russian formalism
- start of work period
- 1916-00-00
- writing language
- Russian
- name in native language
- Виктор Борисович Шкловский
- P12674
- Schwantesia
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Encyclopedic overview
Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (Russian: Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский, IPA: [ˈʂklofskʲɪj]; 24 January [O.S. 12 January] 1893 – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. He is one of the major figures associated with Russian formalism.
Shklovsky's Theory of Prose was published in 1925. Shklovsky himself is still praised as "one of the most important literary and cultural theorists of the twentieth century" (Modern Language Association Prize Committee); "one of the most lively and irreverent minds of the last century" (David Bellos); "one of the most fascinating figures of Russian cultural life in the twentieth century" (Tzvetan Todorov)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viktor Shklovsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.