Bøker av Mikhail Bakhtin

In 1973 Viktor Duvakin taped six interviews with Mikhail Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source of Bakhtin's personal views. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973, translated and annotated here from the tapes, offers a fuller, more flexible image of Bakhtin than we could have imagined beneath his now famous texts.

This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky’s studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle.“Bakhtin’s statement on the dialogical nature of artistic creation, and his differentiation of this from a history of monological commentary, is profoundly original and illuminating. This is a classic work on Dostoevsky and a statement of importance to critical theory.” Edward Wasiolek“Concentrating on the particular features of ‘Dostoevskian discourse,’ how Dostoevsky structures a hero and a plot, and what it means to write dialogically, Bakhtin concludes with a major theoretical statement on dialogue as a category of language. One of the most important theories of the novel in this century.” The Bloomsbury Review