Quote of the day
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
Mikhail Bakhtin
Born: November 17, 1895
Died: March 7, 1975 (aged 79)
Bio: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language.
Known for:
- Rabelais and His World (1965)
- Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics (1972)
- The dialogic imagination
- Speech genres and other late essays
- Art and answerability