The Author in the Era of the Death of the Author: Julia Kristeva in Search of Mikhail Bakhtin

Abstract

The article focuses on Julia Kristeva (1941), who «discovered» Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) for the French public, and review her reading of Bakhtin’s works («Bakhtine, le mot, le dialogue et le roman», 1967; «Une poétique ruinée», 1970).  It has attempted to review the history of Bakhtin’s receiving in France according to the sociocultural context of 1960-s — 1980-s, in which it began and continued.