Biography Shklovsky Viktor Borisovich
(1893 – 1984)
Shklovsky Victor Borisovich (1893 – 1984), writer, literary critic. Born January 12 (24 N. p.) In St. Petersburg in the family of a teacher. Childhood years passed in the capital, in the Admiralty part of the city. From childhood I read a lot, although at school I studied badly, was expelled, “I had to go to an indulgent gymnasium”, which he graduated brilliantly. Here he began to publish (“The right of sorrow” – in the journal “Spring”, where the secretary was V. Kamensky). Enters into the philological faculty of St. Petersburg University, listens to lectures by such famous teachers as Academician Krachkovsky and Academician Baudouin de Courtenay. In these years he is fond of poetry, met with O. Mandelstam, S. Gorodetsky, later – with Mayakovsky. In 1916, along with Yakubinsky, Brick and Polivanov participated in the organization of the Society for the Study of the Theory of Poetic Language (OPOYAZ),
In 1925 he published the book Theory of Prose. He was engaged in the history of literature: in 1928 he wrote the book Material and Style in Leo Tolstoy’s
In the 1930s he appeared with critical articles, wrote about contemporary literature: Sholokhov, N. Ostrovsky, M. Gorky, V. Mayakovsky. The interest in history was reflected in his works “Marco Polo” (1936), “Minin and Pozharsky” (1940), “The Tale of the Artist Fedotov” (1955) and others.
In 1963 comes the fundamental biography “Leo Tolstoy”. along with the literature Shklovsky worked in cinema, creating works on the theory ino, literary portraits Eisenstein, L. Kuleshova, Dzigi Vertov et al., acting as the author and co-author film scripts.
In recent years he performed with excellent literary works – “Energy of delusion” (1981), etc. V. Shklovsky died in 1984.
A brief biography from the book: Russian writers and poets. A short biographical dictionary. Moscow, 2000.
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