Art and Answerability

Contains three of his early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution

Bakhtin's early essays are essential for a full understanding of his philosophy and the premises of his literary criticism. We have waited a long time for this volume and it turns out to be worth the wait. The translations have been thoughtfully and carefully done and the translators are to be congratulated on providing fluent English translations of what are some of the most difficult, though also most rewarding of the Bakhtinian texts. (Slavonic And East European Review)

Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) is one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century philosophical thought.