Readers’ Notes on the Book by M. M. Bakhtin Problems of Dostoevsky’s Creation/Poetics

Abstract

The article deals with some intriguing issues related to the book by M. M. Bakhtin Problems of Dostoevsky’s Creation/Poetics (1929; 1963), namely its significance in the history of humanitarian science in the USSR; religious implications of the book; rough sketches of the scientist for the reissue of the monograph; evolution and contradictions of the philosophical and literary research methodology; continuity of the scientist’s “metalinguistic” ideas with ancient (Aristotle) and Western European (“Vossler’s school”) roots; reflection in the reissue books of the Bakhtin ontological category “Big time”; the distinction between the concepts “creation” and “poetics” in literary heritage of Dostoevsky; the technical possibility of comparing of the changes in the meta-language of the books available in a unified terminology and name pointers in the first experience of publishing two books in one volume, carried out by the St. Petersburg publisher and philologist D. A. Yunov.