{"id":914,"date":"2021-08-31T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=914"},"modified":"2023-04-20T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:10:06","slug":"russian-experts-notes-on-the-oeuvre-of-mikhail-bakhtin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/2021\/08\/31\/russian-experts-notes-on-the-oeuvre-of-mikhail-bakhtin\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Expert\u2019s Notes on the Oeuvre of Mikhail Bakhtin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maria Helena Cruz Pistori. Pontif\u00edcia Universidade Cat\u00f3lica de S\u00e3o Paulo (P\u00f3s-Doc). Associate Editor. Bakhtiniana<\/em>. Revista de Estudos do Discurso. S\u00e3o Paulo, SP, Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruna Lopes Fernandes Dugnani. Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco. Executive Editor. Bakhtiniana<\/em>. Revista de Estudos do Discurso.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nikolai Leonidovitch Vassiliev, recently deceased (1955-2021), is a well-known collaborator of Bakhtiniana<\/em> since the publishing of the translation of his article on Bakhtin as a University Professor (13.2), in 2018. He was also a member of Bakhtiniana<\/em>\u2019s Advisory Board. In the current article \u2013 \u201cReader\u2019s Notes on the Book by M. M. Bakhtin Problems of Dostoevsky\u2019s Creation\/Poetics<\/em><\/a>\u201d – once again, he shows us new aspects of Bakhtin\u2019s work, namely its significance in the history of humanitarian science in the USSR (and worldwide).<\/p>\n

It has been 92 years since the first publishing of Problems of Dostoevsky Creation<\/em>, in 1929. In 2019, this publication was remembered in a Colloquium \u2013 \u201c90 Years of Problems of Dostoevsky Creation\u201d \u2013 at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, where the eminent professor gave a conference on his reader\u2019s notes on Bakhtin\u2019s work. Afterwards, he wrote the article that presents his reflections on Bakhtin\u2019s books on Dostoevsky (1929 and 1963 reformulation of the previous one).<\/p>\n

The article deals with a series of important issues mainly related to Bakhtin\u2019s book on Dostoevsky. Some of the items he comments on are the Marxism or Idealism implicit in Bakhtin\u2019s texts; the religious issues in his work, the position this theme has in Dostoevsky\u2019s books, and so on. It is an article that reveals deep research not only on Bakhtin\u2019s work but also on the sources of his work.<\/p>\n

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N. P. Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, Russia. Image: Personal Archive of Sheila Grillo<\/p><\/div>\n

In this paper, the author recalls how the first book was partly underestimated and unclaimed. He also analyzes some circumstances related to Bakhtin\u2019s creation in the middle of the 20th century, when the Russian philosopher could not talk directly about some of the important questions Dostoevsky\u2019s book deals with, due to political repression.<\/p>\n

Although Vassiliev focuses on Dostoevsky\u2019s book in his article, he also reflects on the main themes dealt in Bakhtin\u2019s work, such as the influence of Structuralism, the carnivalization and the problem of laughter in Bakhtin\u2019s interpretation of Dostoevsky\u2019s novels. He also confronts \u201cthe code of Rabelais\u201d to the \u201ccode of Dostoevsky,\u201d pointing critically to a possible influence of the French author of the Russian classic.<\/p>\n

There are many issues presented in the paper. Some of them answer questions that researchers worldwide have been wondering about, such as Mikhail Bakhtin\u2019s career, production and ideas. According to Vassiliev, we can also draw a development of Bakhtinian thought from metaphysics to metalinguistics as well as from \u201cCreation of Dostoevsky\u201d \u2013 the 1929 book -, to the \u201cDostoevsky\u2019s Poetics,\u201d in 1963.<\/p>\n

As the author states in his conclusions, Bakhtin\u2019s thoughts are original and innovative, based on different scientific voices that echo along the \u201cgreat time\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is possible to discuss what is most important in science: the facts (positivism) or the original ideas and hypotheses (heuristics), although they are difficult to prove. In Bakhtin\u2019s books on Dostoevsky, innovative thoughts are invigorated with: historical and literary non-trivial parallels, artistic facts, an unusual intellectuality, an erudition, a precise composition and a logical exposition, an academic stylistic, based on different scientific \u2018voices\u2019 (ancient, Christian, Western European, pre-revolutionary, Soviet). The scientist\u2019s word about the writer remained in the Great Time, but the\u00a0dialogue<\/em>\u00a0about Dostoevsky and the interpretations of his work continue\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, the dialogue proposed by Vassiliev with Bakhtin\u2019s work enriches the conceptions the reader has about the Russian philosopher of language and his ideas. And we can also say that the article enables us to know an important Russian scholar who kindly shared his researches and the depth of his knowledge.<\/p>\n

Finally, we must say that this entire issue of Bakhtiniana<\/em> (16.2) offers the reader a large set of texts to be savored and included in everyone\u2019s research. Recalling the Bakhtinian concept of a surplus of vision<\/em>, we can say that the authors in this issue \u2013 all of them dealing with themes suggested by Bakhtin\u2019s work \u2013 really have this excess of seeing<\/em> toward the oeuvre of Mikhail Bakhtin (1990, p.22), whose importance is pointed by Crist\u00f3v\u00e3o Tezza (2021) in his article \u201cBakhtin \u2013 a Personal Memoir\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when it seems we are watching the progressive erasure of the literary sensibility, and seemingly incapable of reaching the subtleties of irony because it can only manage to hear its own voice, Mikhail Bakhtin remains an extraordinary and necessary counterpoint\u201d.<\/p>\n

References<\/h3>\n

BAKHTIN, M. Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity (ca. 1920-1923). In: BAKHTIN, M. Art and Answerability. Early Philosophical Essays by M. M. Bakhtin<\/em>. Translated by Vadim Liapunov. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.<\/p>\n

TEZZA, C. Bakhtin – uma mem\u00f3ria pessoal. Bakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso<\/em> [online]. 2021, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 36-52 [viewed 31 August 2021]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1590\/2176-457348231<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/ref.scielo.org\/4fqrrh<\/p>\n

VASSILIEV, N. L. M. M. Bakhtin as a University Professor. Dialogic Pedagogy. An International Online Journal<\/em> [online]. 2018, vol.06 [viewed 31 August 2021]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5195\/dpj.2018.234<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/dpj.pitt.edu\/ojs\/dpj1\/article\/view\/234<\/a><\/p>\n

VASSILIEV, N. L. M. M. Bakhtin como professor universit\u00e1rio. Bakhtiniana<\/em>. Revista de Estudos do Discurso <\/em>[online]. 2018, vol.13, no.02, pp.203-211 [viewed 31 August 2021]. Available from: https:\/\/revistas.pucsp.br\/index.php\/bakhtiniana\/article\/view\/36771<\/a><\/p>\n

To read the article, acess<\/h3>\n

VASSILIEV, N. L. Observa\u00e7\u00f5es de leitura sobre o livro de M. M. Bakhtin Problemas da cria\u00e7\u00e3o\/po\u00e9tica de Dostoi\u00e9vski. Bakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso<\/em> [online]. 2021, vol.16, no.02, pp. 221-247 [viewed 31 August 2021]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1590\/2176-457348178<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/ref.scielo.org\/w3znx7<\/a><\/p>\n

External links<\/h3>\n

Bakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso \u2013 BAK: https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/bak\/<\/a><\/p>\n

About the authors<\/h3>\n

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Nikolai Leonidovitch Vassiliev (1955-2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russian philologist, linguist, literary critic, who worked as a professor of philology at N. P. Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, Russia. He was also a Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia (1989) and Union of Writers of Russia (1994). He authored more than 700 scientific publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How is Bakhtin\u2019s work studied and assessed in his homeland, Russia, nowadays? A professor from the same university where Mikhail Bakhtin also taught for several years presents us some notes raising intriguing issues related to Bakhtin\u2019s book Problems of Dostoevsky\u2019s Creation\/Poetic, providing the reader a view of them in the Great Time. …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[74,7],"tags":[75,138],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bak","category-press-release","tag-bakhtiniana-revista-de-estudos-do-discurso","tag-linguistics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}