L’incompiuto divenire. Sulla storia e la teoria del comico nel pensiero di Michail Bachtin

[Machine translation] The Rabelaisian monograph published by Bachtin in 1965 is only the last stage of a complex stratigraphy of drafting that took shape from the set of problems that emerged during long years of studying the romance genre from the point of view of historical poetics, of the representation of becoming and its chronotopic varieties. The return to Dostoevsky as heir to the carnival tradition in modern literature will close the circle., Bakhtin’s monograph on Rabelais, published in 1965, is only the latest step of a complex stratigraphy of redactions that took form through the questions emerged during many years of study of the genre of the novel in the light of the historical poetics, of the representation of becoming and of its chronotopical varieties. The return to Dostoevsky as the heir of the carnivalesque tradition in the literature of modernity will close the circle.