 Complete the following phrase:  During the six years he spent working as a book-keeper in the town of Kustanai, he wrote several important essays, including Discourse in the Novel. In 1936, living in Saransk, he became an obscure figure in a provincial college, dropping out of view and teaching only occasionally. In 1937, Bakhtin moved to Kimry, a town located one hundred kilometers from Moscow. Here, Bakhtin completed work on a book concerning the 18th-century German novel, which was subsequently accepted by the Sovetskii Pisatel Publishing House. However, the only copy of the manuscript disappeared during the upheaval caused by the German 