Juri Tynjanov (1894–1943)
Author of Pushkin
About the Author
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
Archaisty i novatory 2 copies
Избранные произведения 1 copy
Woskowa persona 1 copy
Vahakuju : jutustusi 1 copy
Восковая персона 1 copy
Подпоручик Киже 1 copy
Малолетный Витушишников 1 copy
История литературы. Критика 1 copy
Puschkin histor. Roman 1 copy
Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film (Cultural Syllabus) (2019) 1 copy
Poetik : ausgew. Essays 1 copy
Secondelieutnant Sjedoch 1 copy
Puškins : [romāns] 1 copy
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Tekstboek algemene literatuurwetenschap moderne ontwikkelingen in de literatuurwetenschap geillustreerd in een… (1977) — Contributor — 13 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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