Viktor Shklovsky
Viktor Shklovsky · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1893, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 1984, Moscow, Russia
Russia
Viktor Shklovsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
Viktor Shklovsky was a founder of Russian Formalism and one of the twentieth century's most influential literary theorists, coining the concept of 'ostranenie' (defamiliarisation) — art's power to make the familiar strange. His essays and experimental prose shaped modern criticism worldwide. He was of Jewish descent through his father.
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Literary & drama critic
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