Boris Eikhenbaum
Boris Eikhenbaum · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1886, Krasny, Smolensk province, Russia — 1959, Leningrad, Soviet Union
Russia / Soviet Union
Boris Eikhenbaum is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
Boris Eikhenbaum was a Russian literary scholar and a leading figure of Russian Formalism, a co-founder of OPOYAZ who pioneered close analysis of literary form; his essays 'How Gogol's Overcoat Is Made' and his studies of Tolstoy are classics of the movement. He was born to a Jewish father and a Russian Orthodox mother, so his Jewish ancestry was on his father's side.
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Literary & drama critic
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