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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 ...

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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: 4/13/2005 03:12:18 PM
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