Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973

by Mikhail Bakhtin

Book Overview

Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for Viktor Duvakin, Mayakovsky scholar, fellow academic, and head of an oral history project, who in 1973 taped six interviews with Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source of Bakhtin's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684480906
• ISBN13: 9781684480906
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"