Submitted By:- Shiwangi Tanwar

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THE AUTHOR
Author – Human person
The image of literature is centered on the
author's personal life rather than the text or
work itself (Barthes disagreed)
For Mallarme from France, “it is language
which speaks, not the author”
By accepting the principle and the experience
of a collective writing, surrealism helped
secularize the image of the Author.
The author is the same as the letter “I”, a
subject.
THE AUTHOR AND WRITING

 The relationship between the author and the book

can be divided into a before and an after.

 The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously

with his text.
 Thus, every text is eternally written “here and now”.
THE TEXT AND AN AUTHOR

The text is a tissue of citations (quotations),

resulting from the thousand sources of
culture.
The writer can only imitate what is anterior,
never original.
MULTIPLE WRITING

 No author beneath the text

 In a multiple writing, everything is liberated, but nothing is deciphered for there is
no underlying ground.
 Multiple writing has an ultimate meaning: it liberates counter-theological activity,
an activity that is “properly revolutionary” since “to refuse to arrest meaning is”, in
the end, “to refuse God and his hypostases, reason, science, law."
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR

The unity of a text is not in its origin (Author),

it is in its destination (listener or reader)
It is the listener or the reader who
understands each written words.