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Essay Archive - Critique of "Death of the Author"
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 ....
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