Boris Wiktorowitsch Tomaschewski

Boris Tomashevsky ( Russian Борис Викторович Томашевский ., Scientific transliteration Boris Viktorovič Tomaševskij ; born November 17 ^jul. / November 29, 1890 ^greg. , † 24. August 1957 ) was a Russian literary critic . After an unsuccessful admission procedure at the Petersburg Polytechnic, he received training in statistics and electrical engineering in Liège and Paris , where he took courses at the Sorbonne . He contributed to the Russian formalism of the 1920s at Leningrad University at the Institute for Russian Literature in the 1930s. His importance as a theorist, as an author of the theory of literature, is undisputed. He wrote important works on versification, poetics, style, text analysis, studies of Pushkin and French poetry.

He was a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR . In contrast to his colleagues, he emphasized the importance of the author for the interpretation of a work, but not by rigidly adhering to the biography. This is only important for cultural history, while the history of literature, to which he feels obliged, should deal with the legend created by the author to which the work relates. This “perceptible background” would be “factored in” by the author and must therefore also be taken into account during the interpretation.

Whether there is such a legend or construction of the authors about themselves depends on the epoch in which they work, so that Tomaschewski comes to the conclusion that an author as an author in this sense could only be found in the 18th century.

Web links

Томашевский Борис Викторович (Russian)
Музей Б. В. Томашевского (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ Mikhail Bakhtin . Speech Genres and Other Late Essays . University of Texas Press, 1986. page 8.
^ Texts on the theory of authorship, edited and commented on by Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, Matias Martinez and Simone Winko, Stuttgart 2000, p. 46.
^ Texts on the theory of authorship, edited and commented on by Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, Matias Martinez and Simone Winko, Stuttgart 2000, p. 47.

personal data
SURNAME	Tomaschewski, Boris Wiktorowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Томашевский, Борис Викторович (Russian); Tomasevskij, Boris Viktorovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1890
DATE OF DEATH	August 24, 1957

[1] Mikhail Bakhtin . Speech Genres and Other Late Essays . University of Texas Press, 1986. page 8.

[2] Texts on the theory of authorship, edited and commented on by Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, Matias Martinez and Simone Winko, Stuttgart 2000, p. 46.

[3] Texts on the theory of authorship, edited and commented on by Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, Matias Martinez and Simone Winko, Stuttgart 2000, p. 47.