A POSSIBLE CRITIQUE ON BAHTIN’S INTERPRETATION OF DOSTOEVSKY

  • Trajce Stojanov

Abstract

This paper is an effort for some different approach of Dostoevsky`s poetic concerning Bahtin`s interpretation. Namely, the paper is a critical overview of Bahtin`s interpretation on Dostoevsky`s “polyphonic novel” offering completely different interpretation of Dostoevsky`s work. Bahtin`s interpretation of Dostoevsky is quite revolutionary and logically consistent, but in our opinion, it misses out the crucial nature of Dostoevsky`s work. Our approach enables us to overcome the obstacles because of which Bahtin made that interpretation in the first place. Bahtin considered that “philosophical monologization” in interpretation of Dostoevsky`s poetic is inappropriate and that`s why he offered his structural analysis and the concept of “polyphonic novel”. But that kind of approach tears living unity of Dostoevsky’s novel – in best case, or lacks of understanding of Dostoevsky`s philosophy – in worst case. Our approach seeks solution in synthesis which is actually immanent in Dostoevsky`s dialectic.

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Published
2016-12-26
How to Cite
Stojanov, T. (2016). A POSSIBLE CRITIQUE ON BAHTIN’S INTERPRETATION OF DOSTOEVSKY. PALIMPSEST / ПАЛИМПСЕСТ, 1(2), 115-126. Retrieved from https://js.ugd.edu.mk/index.php/PAL/article/view/1746
Section
КУЛТУРА/ CULTURE