Yury Tynyanov

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Yury Tynyanov


Born
in Rezhitsa, Latvia
October 18, 1894

Died
December 20, 1943


Yury Nikolaevich (Nasonovich) Tynyanov (Russian: Юрий Николаевич (Насонович) Тынянов; October 18, 1894 - December 20, 1943) was a famous Soviet/Russian writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter.
Yury Tynyanov was born in Rezhitsa, present day Rēzekne, Latvia, Russian Empire. He was a brother-in-law of Veniamin Kaverin, another well-known Russian author. He graduated from Petrograd University in 1918 and published his first works in 1921. Tynyanov was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school.
In 1928, together with the linguist Roman Jakobson, he published a famous work titled Theses on Language, a predecessor to structuralism (but see Ferdinand de Saussure).

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O Tenente Quetange

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مرگ وزیرمختار

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Young Pushkin: A Novel

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Кюхля

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4.32 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1925 — 13 editions
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Lieutenant Kijé/Young Vitus...

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El problema de la lengua po...

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Permanent Evolution: Select...

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Ю. Н. Тынянов. Избранные пр...

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Восковая персона

3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1931
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Трудные повести. 30-е годы

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“Can I really write? It’s not as if I've not got plenty to say. Why then am I silent – silent as the grave?”
Yury Tynyanov, Смерть Вазир-Мухтара

“Até aqui ela não passava de distração do escrivão, perplexidade do Comandante e achado do Ajudante.”
Tynianov

“You can’t judge a bullet by its color, taste or smell: a bullet must be judged by its dynamics.”
Yury Tynyanov

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