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 and depressed because his life
is not a story as it is boring and repetitive. I have read such short stories
with similar titles by authors like Raymond Carver and others. I was surprised
when I began to read "The Death of an Author" that a story with such a powerful
title would be a wordy, whimper of a passage.
The author Roland Barthes is a brilliant writer, he is able to......
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