The interpretations of the author and hero categories in the prefaces of the first French and English translations of Mikhail Bakhtin's work

• Grant number: 22/13012-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 05, 2023
• End date: February 05, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Sandra Guardini Teixeira Vasconcelos
• Grantee: Gabriel Apostólico Carra
• Supervisor: Michel Robert Jean Riaudel
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/02685-0 - The forms of author and hero in Georg Lukács and Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of the novel, BP.IC

Abstract

This research project, intended to be carried out at the Sorbonne Université, aims to study the prefaces that accompanied the first French and English translations of the work of Russian author Mikhail Bakhtin, during the seventies and eighties. By doing this study, we want to understand how the categories of author and hero, indispensable for the architecture of his theory of the novel, were treated in the texts of the corpus, and what these first interpretations can say about the understanding of the author's ideas. This research is important for Bakhtian studies because, compared to studies of the author's translations, the prefacial paratext was relegated to the background, even though it was one of the main entry points to the Bakhtian text for Western readers. (AU)