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In Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Mikhail Bakhtin wrote extensively on the multi-voicedness of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels. For Bakhtin, Dostoevsky’s strength lay in creating a text that features “a plurality of consciousnesses, with equal rights and each with its own world.” Dostoevskian heroes are “not only objects of authorial discourse but also subjects of their ow