The Inter-Human as a Source of Ideology

Abstract

The critical discourse rarely approaches the problems of the idea and ideology in literature, even if their presence in art is obvious. A very good illustration of the importance of the idea in the literary work is Dostoievski’s work, which was studied carefully by Mikhail Bakhtin. One of the theorist’s conclusions was that the inter-human space is a generator of energies, and most of the ideas forming in this area belong to everybody and to nobody in particular. Bakhtin’s theory has similarities with Witold Gombrowicz’s conception of the so-called Form.