M.M. Bakhtin’s lectures on the history of foreign literature recorded by M.A. Beban. Part 6

The paper presents a fragment of M.M. Bakhtin’s lectures as he read at the Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute (now N.P. Ogarev Mordovia State University) in the second semester of the academic year 1936/37. It was recorded by M.A. Beban - a Moksha-Mordovian writer, one of the founders of the professional Mordovian literature, that days - a student of the Faculty of Literature. The fragment includes the consideration of the theme «The history of French Renaissance literature».