Viktor Shklovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Viktor Shklovsky

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1893

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 05-Dec-1984

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, film scholar, film critic, literary critic, literary historian, linguist, science fiction writer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (Russian: ??´???? ????´????? ????´?????, IPA: ['?klofsk??j]; 24 January [O.S.
12 January] 1893 – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer.
He is one of the major figures associated with Russian formalism. Viktor Shklovsky’s Theory of Prose was published in 1925.
Shklovsky himself is still praised as "one of the most important literary and cultural theorists of the twentieth century" (Modern Language Association Prize Committee); "one of the most lively and irreverent minds of the last century" (David Bellos); "one of the most fascinating figures of Russian cultural life in the twentieth century" (Tzvetan Todorov)