Ginzburg, Lidiia (1902–1990)

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Ginzburg, Lidiia (1902–1990)

Russian literary critic. Name variations: Lidiya, Lidia or Lidiia Iakovlevna Gínzburg. Born 1902 in Odessa, Russia; died 1990; attended Leningrad State Institute of History of the Arts.

Influenced by training in formalism, often emphasized connection between art and life; critical works include On the Lyric (1960), On Psychological Prose (1971), On the Literary Hero (1979), About the Old and the New (1982), Literature in the Search for Reality (1987), and A Person Seated at a Desk (1989); selected writings published in English as Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and Other Writings (1992).

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