Roman i dijalogičnost u Mihaila Bahtina
The Novel and the Dialogicity in Mikhail Bakhtin's Literary Theory

Summary/Abstract: The concept of dialogism which Bakhtin has elaborated in the exploration of the novelistic genre has much wider implications than that of stylistic unity. Bakhtin's proposal for the setting up of a stylistic genre must therefore be interpreted as an exploration of genres which, as various types of discursive practices, constitute a variety of world views. These practices give rise to another world view from that which is characteristic of poetry and the epic. This type of dialogism should not be identified with the dialogic novel, i.e. with its peaks which are attributed by Bakhtin to Dostoevsky. The specificity of every novel, even of that where the authoriai position is monologic, is that it contains the alien word and polyphony, because such an authoriai word, in order to be realized, must find its way through the complex social variety of speech. That is why it is important to distinguish the internal dialogism present in every novel and external dialogism which is the intentional dialogism of all elements in the novel (as it is the case in Dostoevsky's works).

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