The importance of Dal's contribution to artistic literature was rediscovered in the twentieth century by the great literary scholar Boris Eikhenbaum. In essays discussing Nikolai Semenovich Leskov and Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin he also found a place for Dal' as a representative of that early tradition in Russian literature in which the focus was not ideological but philological, and he assigned Dal' a place in Russian literature as forerunner of the later "philological school" or "younger line": Leskov, Kuzmin, Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, Boris Andreevich Vogau (better known as Boris Pilniak), Aleksei Mikhailovich Remizov, and others. On the one hand, Eikhenbaum saw literary phenomena in terms of cycles; on the other, in terms of the simultaneous coexistence of varying traditions, for example, Dal' and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bestuzhev (Marlinsky) in the 1830s. The presence of a writer such as Dal' was an interesting theoretical problem for a representative of the Formalist School such as Eikhenbaum. He prefaces his 1924 essay "V poiskakh zhanra" (In Search of Genre) with an epigraph from Dal': "There is a certain kind of alternating cycle in all things, but there is also variety."
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal's background was Danish-German.
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