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OverviewWhenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for Viktor Duvakin, Mayakovsky scholar, fellow academic, and head of an oral history project, who in 1973 taped six interviews with Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source of Bakhtin's personal views: on formative moments in his education and exile, his reaction to the Revolution, his impressions of political, intellectual, and theatrical figures during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and his non-conformist opinions on Russian and Soviet poets and musicians. Bakhtin's passion for poetic language and his insights into music also come as a surprise to readers of his essays on the novel. One remarkable thread running through the conversations is Bakhtin's love of poetry, masses of which he knew by heart in several languages. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973, translated and annotated here from the complete transcript of the tapes, offers a fuller, more flexible image of Bakhtin than we could have imagined beneath his now famous texts. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Slav N Gratchev , Margarita Marinova , Mikhail Bakhtin , Dmitry SporovPublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.513kg ISBN: 9781684480906ISBN 10: 1684480906 Pages: 340 Publication Date: 09 August 2019 Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction Slav N. Gratchev Translator’s Introduction Margarita Marinova Interview One, February 22, 1973 Interview Two, March 1, 1973 Interview Three, March 8, 1973 Interview Four, March 15, 1973 Interview Five, March 22, 1973 Interview Six, March 23, 1973 Afterword: Six Interviews about the Death and Resurrection of the Word Dmitriy Sporov Acknowledgments Bibliography, of the Introductions and Afterword ... Index About the Editors and TranslatorReviewsThe Duvakin recordings were a surprise gift to Bakhtin scholars: a series of intimate but vigorous conversations, led by an expert interviewer, in which Bakhtin described his life and times in striking detail. Now available in a marvelously readable English translation, they are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Bakhtin and his historical-cultural context, as well as anyone with an interest in the culture and cultural politics of the Soviet Union. --Ken Hirschkop University of Waterloo This book is an extraordinary contribution to cultural and intellectual history. Bakhtin's conversations with Duvakin capture a succession of epochs and dramatic events; they reveal a Bakhtin who is both vulnerable and sovereign, anchored in his time and breaking free of its constraints. --Galin Tihanov Queen Mary University of London Bakhtin was never interested in writing his memoirs, nor in making out of himself a work of art. Or even a good story. In his view, we have great novels for that. But Viktor Duvakin, who shared Bakhtin's deep love of poetry, found just the right tone and timing to put his subject at ease. The result, in this full and fluent rendering of the taped sessions, is as close as we can come to the master's nimble, irreverent, freely-roaming voice. --Caryl Emerson Princeton University Author InformationSLAV N. GRATCHEV, MBA, PHD is an associate professor of Spanish at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Polyphonic World of Cervantes and Dostoevsky. MARGARITA MARINOVA, PHD is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. She is a translator and author of Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing. DMITRY SPOROV is chair of the department of oral history at Moscow State University’s Science Library and a distinguished historian. He is also the president of the Foundation for Research in the Humanities and the chief editor for the book series Let's Remember Moscow: 1930s and Let's Remember Moscow: 1940s, a unique collection of oral memoirs about Moscow. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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