Nikolai I. Nikolaev, Principal Librarian of the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of M. Gorky Scientific Library, Saint Petersburg State University, University Embankment, 7/9, 119034, St Petersburg, Russia.
Published Lev Pumpyansky’s remarks on the books “The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics” (1928) by P.N. Medvedev and “Marxism and the Philosophy of Language: Fundamental Problems of the Sociological Method in the Science of Language” (1929) by V.N. Voloshinov, written by Mikhail Bakhtin and published under the names of his friends, offer an exceptional opportunity to understand how these books were perceived in Bakhtin’s immediate circle. Thanks to these thoughtful notes that cover most of the pages in each of the two books, the inexhaustible theoretical wealth that distinguishes these works and thus their irreplaceable place in M.M. Bakhtin’s literary, linguistic and philosophical heritage becomes even more obvious.
social environment; ideological environment; iconic environment; formal method; utterance; external and inner speech.
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Nikolaev, N.I. “About Lev Pumpyansky’s Remarks on Mikhail Bakhtin’s Books, Published under the Names of His Friends – P.N. Medvedev (The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship) and V.N. Voloshinov (Marxism and the Philosophy of Language)”. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 1(67), 2025, pp. 80–104. (In Russ.)
1. Voloshinov, V.N. Marksizm i filosofiya yazyka: osnovnye problemy sotsiologicheskogo metoda v nauke o yazyke [Marxism and Philosophy of Language: the
Main Problems of Sociological Method in the Science of Language]. Leningrad, Priboi Publ., 1929, 188 p. (In Russ.)
2. Medvedev, P.N. Formal’nyi metod v literaturovedenii: kriticheskoe vvedenie v sotsiologicheskuyu poehtiku. [Formal Method in Literary Criticism: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics]. Leningrad, Priboi Publ., 1928, 232 p. (In Russ.)
3. Medvedev, P.N. “Ocherednye zadachi istoriko-literaturnoi nauki” [“The Next Tasks of Historical and Literary Science”]. Literatura i marksizm, no. 3, 1928, pp. 65–87. (In Russ.)
4. Nikolaev, N.I. “M.M. Bakhtin v 1910–20-e gody” [“M.M. Bakhtin in 1910–20 s: The Unity of the Path”]. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 4(54), 2021, pp. 45–59. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2021.54.03
5. Nikolaev, N.I. “O nekotorykh momentakh predistorii ‘Problem poehtiki Dostoevskogo’ M.M. Bakhtina (Pomety L.V. Pympyanskogo v knige M.M. Bakhtina ‘Problemy tvorchestva Dostoevskogo’. L.: Priboi, 1929)” [“On Some Features of the Pre-History of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ‘Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics’ (Lev Pumpyansky’s Marks on Bakhtin’s 1929 Book ‘Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Creation’. Leningrad, Priboi Publ., 1929)”]. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 1(63), 2024, pp. 25–40. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2024.63.02