Osip
Maksimovich Brick

He graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University. Published in 1915 Brick was one of the founders of the Society for the study of poetic language (OPOYAZ) and publisher of his "Collections on the theory of poetic language" (1916-17). In 1917 Brick published his pioneering study of "Sound repetitions," which analyzed sound structure of poetic language of Pushkin and Lermontov. In 1919-20. Brick took an active part in the organization of the Moscow linguistic circle. Although Brick has published only a few works on the study of poetic speech (the second of his most significant works in this area — "Rhythm and syntax", 1927), his deep insight into the problems of poetic structure had a strong influence on the representatives of the formalist school of Russian literary criticism. Together with V. Mayakovsky Brik he edited the avant-garde edition of the "Art commune" (1918), "LEF" (1923-25) and "New LEF" (1927-28). In the mid-1920s Brick developed the "theory of social order" and wrote several important works on the sociology of art, as well as sharp critical articles against the epigones of Tolstoy's realism among the so-called "proletarian writers." In collaboration with Mayakovsky, Brik wrote the play "Radio October" (1926); wrote several screenplays (including the most famous "Descendant of Genghis Khan", set in 1928). Brick is the author of many librettos. Journalistic novel brick "the Jew and the blonde", declared in 1927, was never published; some preserved in his archive of literary works appeared in France in 1969-70.