Krytyka metody polifonicznej: teologia dziennikarska

The paper aims to analyse the polyphonic novel as a process and a genre from three perspectives. In the first place, by problematizing the function of the narrator of journalistic reports – such a critical analysis enables us to note different narrative levels. The narrator does not present a single story, but rather observes the phenomenon for a longer stretch of time. He is not a columnist for whom the story represents the argument to be used in public discourse. He is not a historian as well, whose description refers to abstract beings. All this influences the results of journalistic work. The journalist points at common experience of human groups by conserving his individual perspective. In the second place, the polyphony allows us to note the specific value of the individual voice – timbre, style, perspective. Moreover, all this leads us to the third perspective– the elaboration of a common history, which shall be considered as in accordance with the truth of our conscience.