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Boris Uspensky

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Boris Uspensky · Arts & Literature

What

Literary & drama critic

When

1937, Moscow, Soviet Union

Where

Russia · Italy

Biography

Boris Uspensky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic

How & why

Boris Uspensky is a Russian semiotician, linguist and cultural historian who, with Yuri Lotman, founded the Tartu–Moscow School of Semiotics and wrote influentially on the 'poetics of composition' and point of view in narrative and art. His Jewish identity is not documented in mainstream biographies, though he appears on Jinfo.org's list of Jewish literary and drama critics.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Literary & Drama Critics

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Literary & drama critic

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Literary & Drama Critics