Abstract
Ever since Barthes' "Death of the Author", we've known that the author of a fictional text must be separated from its narrator. However, certain statements generate tensions that lead the reader to wonder who is speaking, who is responsible for the statement in question: is it the author as an individual, as a writer? Is it the character or some kind of universal wisdom?
It's hard to come up with an unequivocal answer to these questions, which are nonetheless invaluable for understanding the work. Indeed, the reader's judgment of the work's aesthetic, moral and even aethical value depends on the attribution of responsibility for these statements. The polyphony of the text, through its ambiguity, generates an interpretative multiplicity that enriches the understanding and individual re-appropriation of the work: instead of denying these questionings, nourishing and problematizing them makes interpretation more complex, giving it back its polyphonic thickness.
