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Mikhail Bakhtin Mikhail Bakhtin The Duvakin Interviews, 1973 EDITED BY SLAV N. GRATCHEV AND MARGARITA MARINOVA TRANSLATED BY MARGARITA MARINOVA Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895–1975, interviewee. | Gratchev, Slav N., editor. | Marinova, Margarita (Margarita D.), editor, translator. Title: Mikhail Bakhtin : the Duvakin interviews, 1973 / edited by Slav N. Gratchev and Margarita Marinova ; translated by Margarita Marinova. Description: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018053290 | ISBN 9781684480913 (cloth) | ISBN 9781684480906 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895–1975—Interviews. Classification: LCC PG2947.B3 A5 2019 | DDC 801/.95092 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018053290 A British Cataloging- in- Publication rec ord for this book is available from the British Library. This collection copyright © 2019 by Bucknell University Press Individual chapters copyright © 2019 in the names of their authors All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Bucknell University Press, Hildreth- Mirza Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837-2005. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. www . bucknell . edu / UniversityPress Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca Contents Introduction 1 SLAV N. GRATCHEV Translator’s Introduction 5 MARGARITA MARINOVA Interview One, February 22, 1973 15 Interview Two, March 1, 1973 49 Interview Three, March 8, 1973 94 Interview Four, March 15, 1973 134 Interview Five, March 22, 1973 172 Interview Six, March 23, 1973 211 Afterword: Six Interviews about the Death and Resurrection of the Word 253 DMITRIY SPOROV Acknowl edgments 257 Notes 259 Bibliography 317 Notes on Contributors 319 Index 321 v Mikhail Bakhtin FIG. I.1. Bakhtin and Duvakin during the interview, 1973. (Courtesy of the Scientific Library at Moscow State University) Introduction SLAV N. GRATCHEV Nothing conclusive has yet taken place in the world, the ultimate word of the world and about the world has not yet been spoken, the world is open and free, every thing is still in the f uture and will always be in the future. — Mikhail Bakhtin, Prob lems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics The book that you are about to read is a unique one in many ways. First of all, it was not originally intended to become a book; it is a collection of six live interviews with one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century— Mikhail Bakhtin. Second, his interviewer, Victor Duvakin (1909– 1982), was not an ordinary journalist chasing a fter some breaking news; rather, he was a professional philologist— a former professor at Moscow State University, who was dismissed from his position for being sympa- thetic to and supportive of the young Soviet writer, Andrei Sinyavsky (Duvakin’s former student), who had been arrested by the KGB for pub- lishing in the West satirical novels under the pen name of a Jewish gangster, Abram Tertz. 1
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