Pegged on the concept of otherness , Bakhtin’s principle of dialogue highlights the differential relation between a center and all that is not the center. Bakhtinian thought centers on the dialogue between the self and the other . Bakhtin argues that any notion acquires meaning only in dialogue with another notion. However, the self in Bakhtin’s notion is not a self-sufficient construct by itself. The self gains meaning/existence only in its relation with the other . Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man: A Dialogic Perspective attempts to probe into the novel under study as a dialogic narrative viewing it as a dialogue between the self and the other , which constitutes the Jewish and the Goyish voices in the novel. Besides, the novel also proves itself as a dialogue between the Author, Hero and the Reader.