Methods of Cataloguing – WRITTEN REPONSE

Matador of Barthes-Death Of The Author

Title: Death Of The Author

Author: Roland Barthes

Name of publisher: Fontana Press

Pages from to : 143-144

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Start with a example of Sarrasine Balzac, discuss the relationship between the author and the work.

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How people always try to connect the work with the author.

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The removal of the author.

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Explained that It is a language which speaks, not the author.

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There is no original writing, the text is a tissue if quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

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Everyone can understand writing in their own way. The future of writing depends on the reader. “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

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