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The article focuses on the book "The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin," by Caryl Emerson. In this book Emerson repeats a story from the early sixties, when some Baklitinians finally got an audience. After fifteen minutes, one member of the party threw himself on his knees before the grand old man, crying, "scholar Mikhail Mikhailovich, tell us how to live so that we can become like you!" This, for all its poignancy, is cultism -- though neither he nor his disciples invented the Russian critic's sense of prophetic vocation.