WRITER

Viktor Shklovsky

1893 - 1984

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Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (Russian: Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский, IPA: [ˈʂklofskʲɪj]; 24 January [O.S. 12 January] 1893 – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Shklovsky has received more than 343,136 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Viktor Shklovsky is the 878th most popular writer (down from 821st in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from Russia (down from 298th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Russian Writer.

Shklovsky is most famous for his theory of ostranenie, or defamiliarization. This theory is a way of looking at art and literature as a means of seeing the world in a new way.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Viktor Shklovsky ranks 878 out of 7,302. Before him are Philip Pullman, Gaius Lucilius, Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, Bernhard Schlink, Wilbur Smith, and Johan Ludvig Runeberg. After him are Ghassan Kanafani, Dashiell Hammett, Luis Sepúlveda, Joseph Campbell, Theodoret, and Fatema Mernissi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Viktor Shklovsky ranks 36. Before him are Qazi Muhammad, Fritz Perls, Andrés Segovia, Juana Bormann, Miroslav Krleža, and Edward G. Robinson. After him are Leslie Howard, Hans Fallada, Walter Baade, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Lili Boulanger, and Mae West. Among people deceased in 1984, Viktor Shklovsky ranks 33. Before him are Marvin Gaye, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Dmitry Ustinov, Stanley Milgram, Vicente Aleixandre, and Philippe Ariès. After him are Karl Rahner, Pierre Gemayel, Tito Gobbi, Kim Il, Henri Michaux, and Oskar Werner.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Shklovsky ranks 299 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan II of Moscow (1326), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), and Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871). After him are Sergei Skripal (1951), Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Leonid Hurwicz (1917), and Kirill Meretskov (1897).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Viktor Shklovsky ranks 33. Before him are Ivan Krylov (1769), Arthur Adamov (1908), Alexander Blok (1880), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), and Varlam Shalamov (1907). After him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), and Fyodor Tyutchev (1803).

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