The Concept of the Polyphonic Documentary Novel of the Laboratory of Reportage and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theory. The Political Face of Polyphony
The Concept of the Polyphonic Documentary Novel of the Laboratory of Reportage and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theory. The Political Face of Polyphony

Author(s): Paulina Orłowska
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: polyphony; Bakhtin; reportage; dialogue; politics
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the theoretical relation between the "Laboratory of Reportage" (LR) and the vision of polyphony postulated by Mikhail Bakhtin. Even if the "Laboratory of Reportage" has not produced a work that could be labelled as polyphonic, it does not mean that such a goal is impossible to reach. The author of the paper argues that Marek Miller, the LR creator and principle polyphony documentary novel theorist, is right when associating the LR oeuvre with the thought of the Russian philosopher, for whom the polyphonic novel, meant as a dialogue contraposed to all types of metanarrative, presents a political dimension understood as processual representation of plurality of voices.

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