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Critique Of "Death Of The Author" - School Essays

Critique Of "Death Of The Author"

The title to the story "The Death of an Author," by Roland Barthes,
suggests this story may be a fictional novel about the story of an author's
death. Perhaps one might pick it up, and skim the foreword in hopes that
beneath the cover of this book there would be a mystery, a story of
detectives, eye-witnesses, clues, and a puzzle for the reader to solve.
Before I read this story, the title "The Death of an Author" brought to my
imagination the biography of a writer slowly drinking himself to death
trying to finish the story of his life, but the author would be stuck and
depressed because his life is not a story as it is boring and repetitive. I
have read such short stories with similar ...

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in a more simple, to the point modern style I
would have read the story, absorbed its content, and would not have
given it a second look. The story could be summarized into 3 lines and
thus reduce the amount of paper it is replicated on the amount of
bandwidth required to transmit it, the space it takes, and the time it
takes to read it. I came to this conclusion after reading "The Death of an
Author" for the fourth or fifth time. I began to wonder why does this man
write this way? What caused him to have so much distrust toward the
critics? Those are the thoughts he was trying to persuade us not to think.
Barthes wanted the author of the story to be no more than a name printed on
the top or front of a book. Throughout the story "The Death of an Author,"
Barthes refers to the author as a scriptor in stating "Succeeding the
Author, the scriptor no longer bears within him passions, humors, feelings,
impressions but rather this immense dictionary from which he draws a
writing that ...

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Added: 11/20/2004 12:33:07 AM
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