User:Kim/reading/The Death of the Author

Roland Barthes, 1967

1 (Intro)

starting text with Sarrasine Balzac sentence, that he wonders about: who is speaking/ writing/ thinking this?

it's impossible to know bc all writing comes from this special voice, composed of multiple

2 (the author: a modern figure)

produced by society at end of middle ages, english empire and french nationalism, reformation

result of capitalist ideology

3 (perspectives)

About Mallarme:

to write is to reach, through a preexisting impersonality that point where language alone acts, “performs,”

About Proust:

blurring relation of the writer and his characters making the narrator not the person who has seen or felt, nor even the person who writes, but the person who will write.

also mentioned:

Surrealism

discipline of Literature