Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Title: Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 243 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 243 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Death of the Author" (1968)
In this work Barthes frees the literary text from any claims of unity that might have been possible by a reference to what the author intended.
The text is therefore not produced by the author but rather by the reader.
It is language that actually speaks, not the author.
To write is to allow language to perform, not me.
This allows the endless free play of meaning
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text is not haunted by this process of filiation. Author's biography, for example, is merely another text to be read. It is the language which speaks in the text, not the author.
Text becomes writable when the reader is asked to collaborate in making it.
As such, text offers pleasure/jouissance as a space for social utopia that transcends social relations (author, reader, critic) and language relations (no language has a hold over any other)