Mr. Kundera's polyphonic novels provide this mode of seeing, what he calls a "suprapersonal wisdom."

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Does this mean that he has renounced the polyphonic novel with scrambled narrative and multiple authorial voices that has typified his major work?

“The Red House” is a curiously plumed bird, all right, the polyphonic novel of consciousness retilted for the metrosexual sensitive-bloke age.

Such characters are more explicitly elaborated in Mikhail Bakhtin's metaphor of the polyphonic novel, which became a source of inspiration for later dialogical approaches to the self.

Vidamía Farrell, the young, precocious heroine of this polyphonic novel, is the link between two families (the Farrells and the Santiagos) and two cultures (Irish and Puerto Rican).

Mr. Kundera's polyphonic novels are, among other things, nothing less than strategies for surmounting one's sense of entrapment in events outside one's control or even awareness - thus the enormous importance he places on Kafka in "Somewhere Behind" and "Notes Inspired by 'The Sleepwalkers.' "