This work makes considerations about the focus of the character by the author on Dostoevsky romance from the work Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics of Bakhtin, establishing an analogy between author/hero in Dostoevsky work and the relationship author/hero in the romance Grande sertão: veredas from Guimarães Rosa. According to Bakhtin Dostoevsky inaugurates the polyphonic, dialogical, presenting a hero whose voice is equalized to the author voice. In this context we presented the narrator Riobaldo
Character; speech; polyphony