Mikhail Bakhtin

There are perhaps nobody who could compete with Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) in terms of global fame. His books about Rabelais and Dostoevsky are translated into many languages ​​and still continue to be actively published. Moreover, the whole "industry of Bakhtin" successfully and uninterruptedly operates, combining both the usual forms of cultural broadcasting of scientific ideas and features, resembling the creation and maintenance of a mythologized cult. Even those people who have never read Bakhtin’s works regularly use the terms ("dialogue", "carnival", "chronotop", "funny culture", "polyphonic novel") The book of Alexei Korovashko not only reconstructs the Bakhta biography in detail, extremely rich in adventurous plots, riddles and hoaxes, but also offers a new look at the scientist’s philosophical and literary concept