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Cyber-Thought Mind & Body
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Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the great original minds of the twentieth century. He left behind several seminal works of literary theory. Yet we have only a fragment of Bakhtin's work on the literary genre known as the bildungsroman. The story behind the loss of this work is interesting and ironic.
After Bakhtin completed his treatise on the bildungsroman, he kept a copy of the manuscript for himself and sent the other copy to his publisher in Germany. With World War II raging across Europe, this was not a good time to be publishing a book in Germany. The manuscript was destroyed, probably in a bombing raid. By the time he heard that his manuscript (which had taken him ten years to complete) was lost, Bakhtin's personal copy was no longer intact. You see, during the siege of Leningrad, there was a terrible shortage of paper. Bakhtin's nicotine addiction, coupled with the fact that he could face death at any moment, had become too much for him. Page by page he had rolled cigarettes and smoked his manuscript.