ABSTRACT
Recovering part of the context in which, Popular culture in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance. The context of François Rabelais (1965), understood as being from between the years of 1930 to 1952, is the task we propose to undertake in this article. This endeavor is justified in that it offers the Brazilian public knowledge about the direct relationship between the theory of the novel and Bakhtin’s work on Rabelais, as well as the circumstances in which the text was written. The research, characterized as historiographic, is based on primary and secondary sources, and recognizes that it is inconclusive and provisory in nature. the direct connection between the theory of the novel, developed in the 1930s, and the book on Rabelais; the fact that Problems of Dostoevky’s Poetics (BAKHTIN, 1984 [1929]) entered the history of Soviet literary theory soon after its publication; Mikhail Bakhtin’s scientific personality; and the revolutionary dimension of François Rabelais’ work.
M. Bakhtin; book on Rabelais; context