M.M. Bakhtin’s lectures on the history of foreign literature recorded by M.A. Beban. Part 9 publication, introductory article and notes by I.V. Klyueva

The publication represents the final part of M.M. Bakhtin’s lectures read at the Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute (now N.P. Ogarev Mordovia State University) in the second semester of the 1936/37 academic year and recorded by a Moksha-Mordovian writer, one of the founders of professional Mordovian literature, at that time a student of the literary faculty M.A. Beban (Byabin). The fragment examines the history of English and French literature of the 17th century. It briefly analyzes the work of English authors J. Milton, J. Bunyan, considers the theoretical foundations of French classicism (the aesthetics of N. Boileau, the philosophy of R. Descartes), characterizes the work of French writers - representatives of classicism (F. de Malherbe, P. Corneille, J. Racine, Molière).