Stephen Blackwell quickly answered my question
about Bakhtin ( " I'm afraid I can't say much about how this question might
relate to Bakhtin's notions of multi-voicedness or polyphonicity--it has been
too long since I reviewed them(...)"
Thanks!
What I had in mind was a comment which I understood
to imply that Nabokov's was the
only voice present in his novels and which has been
puzzling me ever since.
I may have misunderstood it completely ( and
to ask for any extensive explanation about Bakhtin, polyphonic novels
and "voices" at this list would be
completely misdirected.)
The comment was " As Pekka
Tammi convincingly argued in his "Problems of Nabokov's Poetics"
(Helsinki, 1985, 97-101) Nabokov's narrative, in terms of Bakhtinian metaphors,
should be defined as anti-polyphonic: "We may talk of a pronouncedly
anti-polyphonic feature in the author's writing: an overriding tendency to
make explicit the presence of a
creative consciousness behind every fictive
construction." (100) Alexander Dolinin ( posted: 25 de set de
2004 - 21:44)