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Juri Tynjanov (1894–1943)

Author of Pushkin

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Tynyanov, one of the founders of structuralist criticism, made lasting contributions to Pushkin studies, to the theory of verse semantics, and to other fields. His novels tend to embody his theoretical interests. His most important works deal with the oppressive period of Nicholas I's reign. Death show more and Diplomacy in Persia (The Death of Wazir-Mukhtar) (1927--28) is a biographical novel about the celebrated nineteenth-century satirist Aleksandr Griboyedov. Other novels include Kyukhlya (1925), about the Decembrist poet Kyukhel'-beker, and the unfinished Pushkin (1935--37). Among Tynyanov's shorter works, the novella Second Lieutenant Kije (1927), set in the time of the temperamental Emperor Paul I, has achieved the greatest renown and was made into a film in 1934. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by Juri Tynjanov

Pushkin (1936) 57 copies
Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar (1927) 57 copies
Lieutenant Kijé (1927) 45 copies
Kyukhlya (1925) 24 copies
Vaxfiguren (1930) 7 copies
Problem of Verse Language (1981) 6 copies
Avanguardia e tradizione (1968) — Author — 4 copies

Associated Works

Great Soviet Short Stories (1962) — Contributor — 76 copies
Russische verhalen (1965) — Contributor — 11 copies
Venäläinen formalismi : antologia (2001) — Contributor — 9 copies

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Canonical name
Tynyanov, Yury
Legal name
Tynyanov, Juri Nikolajevitš
Other names
Tyni︠a︡nov, I︠U︡. N. (I︠U︡riĭ Nikolaevich)
Tynyanov, Yury Nikolaevich
Тынянов, Юрий Николаевич
Tynanov, Yury Nikolaevich
Birthdate
1894-10-18
Date of death
1943-12-20
Burial location
Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow, Russia
Gender
male
Nationality
Russia
Birthplace
Rezhitsa, Russian Empire
Place of death
Moscow, Russia, USSR
Places of residence
Rezhitsa, Russian Empire
Petrograd, Russia
Education
Petrograd University
University of St. Petersburg
Occupations
Pushkin scholar
literary critic
translator
screenwriter
historical novelist
Organizations
Union of Soviet Writers
Short biography
Juri Tynjanov was born to a Jewish family of doctors in Rezhitsa, Russian Empire (present-day Rēzekne, Latvia). He went to gymnasium (high school) in Pihkova and studied from 1912 to 1919 at the Faculty of History and Linguistics of the University of St. Petersburg. There he attended the seminar on Alexander Pushkin held by Semyon Vengerov, a renowned literary historian. Tynjanov was fluent in German and French, and became a literary critic. He wrote more than half a dozen books about Pushkin and his era, most of which have never been translated into English. After graduation, he worked as a teacher and translator for the Comintern. From 1920, he served as the secretary of OPOJAZ (Society for the Study of Poetic Language), a prominent group of linguists and literary critics. In the years 1921–1930, Tynjanov was a professor at the Institute of Art History. He started writing fiction in the mid-1920s. His first historical novel, Küchlja (1925) was about the Decembrist poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker, a friend of Pushkin. His novel Smert Vazir-Muhtara (Death of the Vazir-Muhtari, 1927–1928) described the fate of the diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov. He also spent many years researching and writing a novel about Pushkin's childhood and youth that was unfinished at his death. His novella Second Lieutenant Kije (1927), set in the time of the Emperor Paul I, brought him his widest fame and was adapted into a film in 1934. That same year, he was elected a member of the board of the Writers' Union of the Soviet Union. During World War II, he was evacuated from Leningrad sick with multiple sclerosis and died at age 49 in Moscow.

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Cette longue nouvelle de 1928, qui fut portée à l'écran en 1936 avec une musique de Prokofiev, est une excellente histoire fantastique, tellement bien incarnée dans un cadre historique plausible que le héros de l'histoire (qui n'existe pas) arrive satiriquement dans un monde absurde au temps du tsar Paul 1er à vivre plus réellement que les autres personnages. Deux autres nouvelles sont incluses dans ce recueil.
 
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PierreYvesMERCIER | Feb 19, 2012 |
Il s'agit du plus extraordinaire roman historique qui se puisse lire. Le héros en est Alexandre Griboïedov, diplomate, certes, mais aussi poète, la seconde figure du romantisme russe à côté de Pouchkine. Moscou, Pétersbourg, les routes du Sud, Tiflis, Tabriz, Téhéran..., c'est l'histoire de cet homme, ses amours, ses aventures, ses moments d'indifférence, ses témérités, son audace : un fantastique défilé d'êtres humains, la haute société, les gens de lettres, les militaires, les fonctionnaires, les marchands, les espions politiques, tout le pays, et au-delà des frontières persanes les déserteurs, les eunuques, la cour du chah, les princes prêts à s'égorger les uns les autres... Je n'ai jamais rien lu d'aussi éblouissant que ce tourbillon d'hommes et de femmes qui dure un peu moins d'une année.… (more)
 
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