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BAKHTIN QUESTION. THE THIRD ARTICLE: VALENTIN NIKOLAEVICH VOLOSHINOV

Peshkov I.V.

Abstract

The article is a brief biography of Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov from the standpoint of his participation in the Bakhtin circle and publications under his own name of a number of Bakhtin’s works, which began with the critical article “Beyond the Social Principle” (1925), continued by the theoretical article “Discourse in life and discourse in poetry” (1926), books “Freudianism. A Critical Sketch” (1927) and “Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Fundamental Problems of the Sociological Method in the Science of Language” (1929) and which completed by several papers in 1930. Additional arguments are given in favor of an earlier acquaintance between Bakhtin and Voloshinov than was commonly believed in the 1990 s, and a special interpretation of the episode with Voloshinov in the memoirs of O.M. Freidenberg is put forward.

Keywords

M.M. Bakhtin; V.N. Voloshinov; O.M. Freidenberg; author’s mask.

For citation

Peshkov, I.V. “Bakhtin Question. The Third Article: Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov”. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 3(57), 2022, pp. 86–109. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2022.57.06

DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2022.57.06

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