Svetlana A. Dubrovskaya, DSc in Philology, Professor, Department of Russian as Foreign Language, Faculty of Philology, Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University, Bolshevistskaya Street, 68, 430005, Saransk, Russia.
The research was carried out at the expense of the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 24-28-00061 “M.M. Bakhtin’s Marginalia on editions from the scholar’s personal library and other book repositories: an attempt of publication, commentary, and reconstruction of contexts”. The article deals with one of the most important sources of M.M. Bakhtin’s scientific biography – publications with the scientist’s marginalia preserved in various libraries of the country. Working with these publications allows us to clarify some details of the researcher’s life, to concretize his work on certain problems. Formulas preserved in separate books from the library of Mordovian State University provide grounds for additions to the Bakhtinian chronograph. The author emphasizes that books with Bakhtin’s marginalia, including those that are not mentioned in his writings or commentaries on them, allow us not only to supplement Bakhtin’s “list of literature” but also to introduce into the scientific turnover a significant range of names and texts that previously remained beyond the attention of researchers.
M.M. Bakhtin; scholarly legacy; thinker biography; archive; library; marginalia.
15.10.2024
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