This volume continues the publication of the first scientific collected works of M. M. Bakhtin, which began in 1996 with the publication of Volume V of the collection and continued in 2000. release of Volume II. Volume VI contains the author’s later work. The volume is based on the second, revised and significantly expanded edition of his book about Dostoevsky (1963) and an extensive corpus of long-term laboratory developments of the 60s - early 70s, published here for the first time in full, significantly exceeding previous publications in volume and in the author's composition , i.e. in the composition of the notebooks in which they were left by the author. These two major contributions of the volume accompany other later texts of varying nature. Like the two previously published volumes of the collection, this volume is extensively commented on.