Quotes by : Mikhail Bakhtin

Laughter has the remarkable power of making an object come up close, of drawing it into a zone of crude....

What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived....

The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited....

Every command slaps liberty in the face.

As a result of the work done by all these stratifying force in language, there are no "neutral" words....