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The poet Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered
twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the
ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy.
His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in
Kuchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent
literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yury Tynyanov. Writing at a
time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and
society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting
experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative
style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the
first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd
adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly
complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society.
Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an
intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also
included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson. Tynianov developed a
groundbreaking conceptualization of literature as a system
within-and in constant interaction with-other cultural and social
systems. His essays on Russian literary classics, like Pushkin's
Eugene Onegin and works by Dostoevsky and Gogol, as well as on the
emerging art form of filmmaking, provide insight into the ways art
and literature evolve and adapt new forms of expression. Although
Tynianov was first a scholar of Russian literature, his ideas
transcend the boundaries of any one genre or national tradition.
Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov's
seminal articles on literary theory and film, including several
articles never before translated into English.
The poet Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered
twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the
ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy.
His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in
Kuchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent
literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yury Tynyanov. Writing at a
time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and
society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting
experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative
style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the
first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd
adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly
complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society.
Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an
intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also
included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson. Tynianov developed a
groundbreaking conceptualization of literature as a system
within-and in constant interaction with-other cultural and social
systems. His essays on Russian literary classics, like Pushkin's
Eugene Onegin and works by Dostoevsky and Gogol, as well as on the
emerging art form of filmmaking, provide insight into the ways art
and literature evolve and adapt new forms of expression. Although
Tynianov was first a scholar of Russian literature, his ideas
transcend the boundaries of any one genre or national tradition.
Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov's
seminal articles on literary theory and film, including several
articles never before translated into English.
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