Fisionomia dello scrittore e ruolo della critica in "Moj vremennik" di Boris Ejchenbaum

The article, part of a work in progress on the theme of literaturnaya lich-nost’, considers the essay «Pisatel’skij oblik Gor’kogo»contained in that original publication by Boris Eikhenbaum entitled Moj vremennik. We focus in particular on two aspects: Eikhenbaum’s debt to symbolism, evident in the way of conceiving a new type of literary criticism, and the interest in literary biography.