By M.M. Bakhtin
Edited by Michael Holquist
 
Here in English translation and four selections from Voprosy Literatury I estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. Bahktin Claims for the novel vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as a force, “novelness”. He examines the difficulty of arriving at a generic definition of the novel and attempts a classification of novelistic works based on the philosophic attitude towards time and space that each presumes. Finally, Bakhtin discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems made up of subgenrs, dialects and almost infinitely fragmented “languages” in battle with one another.
 
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