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The Death Of The Author (2000)

by Roland Barthes(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: This is shorter than Foucault's and I liked this one better. The last paragraph impressed me and completely won me over. Though I still believe in the significance of the author for the interpretation of any text, I don't believe it to be the ultimate source for it. Barthes, in this respect, highlights the importance of the reader saying that it is the destination that is imperative to the text's meaning rather than the origin. Very interesting, indeed.
review 2: This is not a finished review. There's also pieces of my review in Image Music Text. This review is specific to the essay The Death of the Author.There will always be context in the origin of a piece of art that lends to the understanding of the art. Granted, there are different degrees to the importan... morece of context per art form, depending on where and when it came from, but the author will always be important. The author has both confines of its own that created the voice it speaks with in text, and a context, which enabled the author to write in the first place."the reader is without history, biography, psychology; he is simply that someone who holds together in as single field all the traces by which the written text is constituted."Monks who read Buddhabhisita Duddhanama Sutra do have a predilection for a conservative and traditional interpretation of the text that is unified with its author. Again, this is an extreme degree, but it's an example that can be extended to any writing. less

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