Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The World of Cervantes
Chapter I: “I hear voices in everything and dialogic relation among them.” (M. Bakhtin)
Chapter II: “We do not read words, we read ideas.” (M. Bakhtin)
Chapter III: “I am against enclosure in a text.” (Bakhtin)
Chapter IV: “Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes. I have done what I could; those who can will do better.”
Chapter V: “Writers themselves do not create polyphonic novels.” (Bakhtin)
Chapter VI: “Consensus omnium. By the agreement of all.”
Chapter VII: “Quantum satis. The amount that is needed.”
Chapter VIII: “Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.”
Chapter IX: “Life enters language through concrete utterances.” (Bakhtin)
Part II: The World of Dostoevsky
Chapter X: “Nothing is absolutely dead: every meaning will have its festival.” (Bakhtin)
Bibliography
About the author
Index