“…Bakhtin thought man and God carry on a free dialogue between themselves, and that human beings retain choice, the choice of faith and disbelief. Moreover, he thought, and this was a rather characteristic idea he often repeated in different ways, true faith exists on the boundary of faith and disbelief. When a person wholly passes into disbelief it is as if he dies, but also when he fanatically gives himself over to faith, when no room is left for doubt, wavering, or tragic choice, that too is a form of death.”
Vadim Kozhinov, one of the first literary executors/discoverers of Bakhtin’s work
