Larra: From Polyphony to Textual Rebellion
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: In the first chapter of his seminal Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Mikhail Bakhtin argues that the multitude of memorable characters in the Russian novelist’s works have led to a certain fragmentation of the author’s persona, giving the impression that “one is dealing not with a single author-artist who wrote novels and stories, but with a number of philosophical statements by several author-thinkers.” Similarly, he remarks that scholarly criticism had largely fallen prey to a comparable reading of Dostoevsky’s works, privileging individual characters’ voices, in the process splintering the author-figure by merging it with each individual character, as if it were “not an object of authorial discourse, but rather a fully valid, autonomous carrier of his own individual word” (5).
DOI: 10.26077/2f55-5d68
Author: Raillard, Matthieu P.
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W63138242