Boris Tomashevsky (1890-1957)

  • Full name: Boris Victorovich Tomashevsky
  • Emphasized the difference between the story (fabula) and the plot (sjuzhet). Story: actual sequence of events (real or imaginary) as they would have occurred. Plot: the artistic presentation of the story's events, which must involve reorderings, juxtapositions, repetitions, etc. in order to heighten or enhance their effect in a work of literature.
  • Prominent member of OPOIAZ.
  • Many of his essays on literary criticism would later be used by structuralist critics.
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