The following article argues for a hermeneutics of the narrative subject in its ethical terms. The main objective is to relate the last formulation of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of the subject, the “narrative identity”, with Michail Bakthin’s dialogism and the processes of the polyphonic novel. Both authors develop a philosophy of the subject based on a hermeneutics of the text and of the literary subject. Under this perspective, the article aims to investigate through an intertextual dialogue: how subjects are constructed and deconstructed in narration; how the interpretative act contribute to the critical formulation of the subject-reader.