Editions with Marginalia by M. M. Bakhtin (from the Thinker’s Archive)

Introduction. The problems of creating a scientific biography of M. M. Bakhtin in the last decade have been the focus of attention of researchers of his legacy. Readers' notes of the philosopher on other publications, including works of fiction and textbooks, remain unstudied and are of interest for further study. The purpose of the study is to present a list of publications with Bakhtin's marginalia from the personal archive of the thinker. Materials and Methods. The main material for the study were books and articles with readers' notes of M. M. Bakhtin from his personal archive, the collected works of M. M. Bakhtin. The biographical method was used to analyze the relationship between the life path, the concept of "small time" and the work of the scientist in the context of his "personal environment"; the descriptive method was used to systematize the marginalia and reconstruct Bakhtin's work processes; the comparative historical method was used to identify the creative dialogues of the thinker with his contemporaries against the background of the evolution of humanitarian thought in the 20th century. Results and Discussion. The article presents an alphabetical list of 19 books and reprints of articles with marginalia by M. M. Bakhtin from his personal archive. The authors note that the pages of all publications contain Bakhtin’s pencil marks (from one to seven lines in the margins), reader’s signs “NB”, and in some cases, additional horizontal underscores of phrases and sentences. Based on a preliminary analysis of the identified publications, we came to the conclusion that it is relevant and important to study the publications in detail in the context of M. M. Bakhtin’s scientific biography, to determine the “source value” of preserved reader’s notes in the margins of specific books and articles, to understand M. M. Bakhtin’s marginalia in terms of the consonance of the elaborated texts with the scientific interests of the scientist in a certain period, as well as to consider a number of publications with reader’s notes as a material that M.M. Bakhtin used in teaching and educational activities. Conclusion.The study of marginalia and transitional texts by M. M. Bakhtin allows us to clarify our understanding of his work with sources, to restore the contours of his scholarly dialogue with his contemporaries and predecessors, and to determine the originality of his ideas in the context of intellectual trends of the time. The prospects of the study are connected with the restoration and study of Bakhtin's dialogues in accordance with his idea of dialogizing reading.