 M. Bakhtin made «a true revolution" (S.Bocharov) in the poetics of prose, legalized independent existence of polyphonic voices in the novel.In the book "The Novel and Modernity” (1973, re-edition 1977, in Russian, 1977) Bučys tried to apply the ideas of Bakhtin as far as possible on the material of the Lithuanian novels of the Soviet period (1940 - 1970).In addition to works of literary criticism he has published two novels and four books of poetry.