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Clark, Katerina & Holquist, Michael
Mikhail Bakhtin
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London;
Date of Publication: 1984
Stock Code: 11463
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xi, [5], 398. Monochrome illustrations within text. Publishers’ light brown cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Binding clean and bright. Jacket spine sunned and lightly creased. A very good copy in like jacket. From the library of author David Lodge, with his signature to front free endpaper in ink and his marginal lining and annotation throughout in pencil. Biography of the Russian philosopher, literary theorist and polymath (1895-1975), whose work in his own lifetime was mainly published under others’ names, or remained unpublished. Now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century, this work gives an authoritative introduction to Bakhtin’s ideas. £30.00