Literary Polyphony Example

The polyphony Literacy occurs in a text when there are different speakers who express themselves individually, putting their own nuance and giving an expressive multiplicity, within the global meaning of the text, harmonizing with the others, around the main idea.

The polyphony Literary is given when different narrative voices, dialogues or discourses of a text are different in the way of expressing themselves, giving their vision particular on the same topic, exposing a line of thought independent of that of the other characters or narrators, without losing the idea principal.

The concept of polyphony was taken from the polyphony musical, which is the term with which the confluence of multiple independent sounds or voices is manifested, which can have a slight lag with respect to others, or that carry a different melody, but that together, produce a whole harmonic.

Example of literary polyphony (Dialogue):

Dialogue between some students, one Argentine, one Spanish and one Mexican, on the subject of the possibility that the antiquity of civilizations is even greater than previously thought.

Pepe - what do you think is the oldest civilization, and how old do you think it is?

Sancho - I think the Egyptian, because they say that the pyramids are five thousand years old.

Evaristo - I think you are wrong, the Sumerians are the oldest.

Pepe- what about other civilizations?

Sancho- like which?

Evaristo - Chinese, Indian and other civilizations.

Pepe - how old are they?

Evaristo - Both are thousands of years old, but I don't know exactly how long.

Sancho- I think the oldest is the Egyptian.

Evaristo - and why do you think that?

Sancho- because geologists have found that the sphinx is possibly older than archaeologists assumed until recently.

Evaristo - what do you mean?

Sancho- a that Egyptologists say that the sphinx was sculpted in the XXVI century BC. and that the effigy of a pharaoh of that time was carved on it. But according to Geologists, the sphinx has a different wear than other stone monuments in the area, wear due to the effects of erosion caused by water.

Evaristo - and what's so extraordinary about that.

Sancho- that in Egypt it hardly rains, and therefore it is very difficult that in the time in which Egyptologists locate the creation of the sphinx is in the XXVI century BC. but for the stone of which the sphinx is made to be worn to that degree and in the way in which that wear, it must have happened in the geological period in which Egypt had a more humid climate, in a period in which there was such a humidity.

Pepe- and when could that moment be?

Sancho- according to geologists and climatologists, about twelve thousand or ten thousand years ago, at the time when the ice of the poles was greater and the climate of those regions Hera more humid and there was a rainy climate in said zone.

Evaristo - so if the sphinx is older, and is, let's say, twelve thousand years old, do you think it would be the oldest civilization?

Sancho-Maybe, but I don't know if there is another older civilization.

(In this brief dialogue the main idea is the possibility of a greater antiquity of civilization, where the polyphony it is found in the different “voices”, or interventions of the characters who dialogue. Dialogues in which the main idea is not lost, which in this case is the possible greatest antiquity of civilization.)