ext_87262 ([identity profile] iagor.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] truepenny 2005-09-23 04:22 pm (UTC)

I cannot read Steven King. I love his stories, just not his prose. Oh well.

Bakhtin, in general, dealt in absolutes, part of being a product of that intelligentsia generation so enamored with Kant-Hegelian idealism. I found his Slovo V Romane a bit cumbersome to read, but I suspect Kazakhstan did not agree with him, and by that point he was a beaten horse, as Russian proverb says :) Curiously, Lenin was also enchanted by much the same philosphical and literary trends, but they fell flat on Stalin, who was basically a glorified thug with very little formal education.

The problem that I have with Bakhtin is that it's very hard to separate what was written by him specifically from what was written by his friends and the quality of published works varies rather wildly.

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