multivocal

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The novel’s multivocal structure gives each narrator equal weight; the collective theme that no one can ever know what another person is thinking or experiencing comes at the price of never seeing the whole truth.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2022

Despite the rush of drama indicated by Gunaratne’s title, “his strengths are in the quieter details — of personal stories, nuanced characterizations and especially in his multivocal breadth of register,” our reviewer, Jon McGregor, writes.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2019

The humor associated with black language play—with jokers like Pryor and Bernie Mac—directly descends from this multivocal tradition, and from the trouble that made it necessary.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

The clear purpose of the multivocal narrative is to let you piece together the apparently strange world of the Congo from these different accounts.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2013

Whenever I meet with an ambiguous or multivocal word, without its meaning being shown and fixed, I stand on my guard against a sophism.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson