Abstract

In Bakhtin’s perspective, a responsible coexistence between the author and an autonomous hero is possible. In fact, the author is not just the absolute creator of the text, but also the responsible interlocutor of its own character. Furthermore, the author is the one that enables the hero to express itself as an autonomous subject, finally capable to tell its own truth. The aesthetic event brings about a double responsibility for the author, in sacrificing its own space to the benefit of the hero, and for the hero, in the role of freely expressing a word independent from the author