Yury Tynianov as novelist

Yury Tynianov is famous for being a literary scholar in the school of Russian Formalism. But in his life he was a superb novelist as well as a literary scholar, though due to limited availability his works have remained relatively unknown in the Western world. Through close analysis of his masterpiece, The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar we come to a greater understanding of Formalism, history and the techniques of this great forgotten artist. A comparative study between The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar and Heine Zaches by E. T. A. Hoffmann demonstrates the way that this novel correlated with other works in literary history and give weight to the placement of this text within the canon of world literature.