Yury Tynyanov
Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school.Biography
Yury Tynyanov was born in Rezhitsa, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire. 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.
He died of multiple sclerosis in Moscow.Major works
In 1928, together with the linguist Roman Jakobson, he published a famous work titled Theses on Language, a predecessor to structuralism, which could be summarised in the following manner :
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.In English
Works by Yury Tynyanov
- Formalist theory, translated by L.M. O'Toole and Ann Shukman
- Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar, translated by Susan Causey, Look Multimedia
- Lieutenant Kijé / Young Vitushishnikov: Two Novellas , translated by Mirra Ginsburg
Works edited by Yury Tynyanov
Novels:
- Кюхля, 1925
- Смерть Вазир-Мухтара, 1928
- Пушкин, 1936
Novellas and stories:
- Подпоручик Киже, 1927
- Восковая персона, 1930
- Малолетный Витушишников, 1933
- Гражданин Очер
On Pushkin and his era:
- Архаисты и Пушкин, 1926
- Пушкин, 1929
- Пушкин и Тютчев, 1926
- О "Путешествии в Арзрум", 1936
- Безыменная любовь, 1939
- Пушкин и Кюхельбекер, 1934
- Французские отношения Кюхельбекера, 1939
- Сюжет "Горя от ума", 1943
