Not only Bakhtin

[Alina Israeli]

If I may slightly rephrase the discussion: how many people make a living
stydying the writings of those who could not support themselves by their
writings. Cvetaeva is the first who comes to mind. (Yes, I know that
Shakespeare supports even more people.)

>Finally, what has he said that's so appaling? ... That
>there are no career-making enterprise on-going in the Western academies?
>That there are no market mechanisms forming research? Are we already at the
>stage when we attempt to prove that water is dry?

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