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The novel as a genre and the novelist as an artist are uniquely suited to portraying the heteroglot reality of language and social discourse. Any form or use of language can enter into the world of the novel, and the novelist must be adept at harnessing this multiplicity for "the orchestration of his themes and for the refracted expression of his intentions and values." Language is relativised in the novel and is dialogic in nature: monologic language, language with pretensions to a unitary authority, becomes suspect, since it implies the exclusion

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