Conversations of the Russian philosopher M.M. Bakhtin (1895-1975) with the famous literary critic V.D. Duvakin (1909-1982) recorded on tape in 1973 M.M. Bakhtin did not write memoirs, did not give detailed interviews; few documents related to his biography survive. Unique records of his conversations with V.D. Duvakin contain precious testimonies of our outstanding contemporary about time and about himself.