Analysis of the Short Story “The Lady with the Dog”. Parallels in the Author-Character Relations in Mikhail Bakhtin and Anton Chekhov
Journal: Bakhtiniana Revista de Estudos do Discurso
Year: 2022

ABSTRACT Bakhtin's early works point to the origins of his theory. The novelty of this article consists in presenting Bakhtin's early works, more precisely the essay “The Author and the Hero in Aesthetic Activity,” written in the 1920s, and comparing it with Chekhov's views on the Author-Character-Reader relationship since we consider Chekhov a writer and a theorist of verbal creation, which we will evidence with excerpts from his letters. The article presents an analysis of Anton Chekhov's shor