Esas cosas

«Even belonging to a definite genre, like having a set number of pages, could be perceived as the guard towers of an aesthetic Gulag, where the prisoners are to be distributed by zones and strut about with numbers on their backs. Smashed into hundreds of dully glimmering prisms, the specter of postcommunism wanders over the most recent prose: the backbone of history –the plot– has been broken up into a multitude of vertebrae…The century is ending. In place of a hard-pawed and relentless predator, there are tender bugs that flash in different directions…»

En: The First One Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin. Caryl Emerson, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. p. 13