Rabelais and His World Summary
Mikhail Bakhtin

Rabelais and His World Summary

This is a work of literary criticism, by Mikhail Bakhtin. There is a note on the back that states that the author accurately represents the change in Russia from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. His work has grown prominent in Russia—both Soviet Russia and Post-Soviet Russia in the second half of the twentieth century. The work is a relatively contemporary analysis of a bygone era of Russia. Not...

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