"The suggestion of Bakhtin's total oeuvre, conceived as a single utterance, is that our ultimate act of authorship results in the text which we call our self."
— Mikhail Bakhtin

January 1, 1970

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Michael Holquist, "Answering as Authoringː Bakhtin's Trans-Linguistics," in Gary Saul Morson, ed., Bakhtinː Essays and Dialogues on his Work, University of Chicago Press, 1981, at p. 67.