Shklovsky, Viktor (Borisovich)
- Shklovsky, Viktor (Borisovich)
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born Jan. 24, 1893, St. Petersburg, Russia
died Dec. 8, 1984, Moscow
Russian critic and novelist.
From 1914 he was a major voice in the critical movement called Russian
Formalism, to which he contributed the concept of
ostranenie, or "making it strange." He argued that literature is a collection of devices that force readers to view the world afresh by presenting old ideas or mundane experiences in new, unusual ways. His earlier works include the acclaimed memoir
A Sentimental Journey (1923) and
The Technique of the Writer's Craft (1928). Official Soviet displeasure with Formalism later obliged him to write within the constraints of
Socialist Realism, and he published historical novels, film criticism, and highly praised literary studies.
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