“Body of the sufferer” aesthetics by M.M. Bakhtin. Focussing on Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from underground”

Mira Dzhun

doi:10.28995/2073-6355-2018-2-183-193

“Body of the sufferer” aesthetics by M.M. Bakhtin. Focussing on Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from underground”

Mira Dzhun

https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6355-2018-2-183-193

Abstract

The article is focused on the “suffering” in the world of Mikhail Bakhtin and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Bakhtin in his work ‘‘Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity’’ offers an example of the “body of the sufferer”. It helps to explain the nature of the “outsideness” notion and reveals a new connection that can relate Bakhtin to Dostoevsky. For Bakhtin, the “body of the sufferer” presupposes a distance that has never been overcome by anyone and can not awaken consciousness as a subjective being. And in Dostoevsky’s works, suffering as an indicator of one’s own will guarantees the presence of the subject

Keywords

М.М. Бахтин, тело, вненаходимость, Ф.М. Достоевский, «Записки из подполья», страдание, сознание, Mikhail Bakhtin, body, outsideness, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Notes from Underground”, suffering, conscience,

About the Author

Mira Dzhun

Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation

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For citation: Dzhun M. “Body of the sufferer” aesthetics by M.M. Bakhtin. Focussing on Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from underground”. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2018;(2-2):183-193. https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6355-2018-2-183-193

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