“Having buried the Author, the modern scriptor can thus no longer believe, as according to the pathetic view of his predecessors, that this hand is too slow for his thought or passion and that consequently, making a law of necessity, he must emphasize this delay and indefinitely ‘polish’ his form. For him, on the contrary, the hand, cut off from any voice, borne by a pure gesture of inscription (and not of expression), traces a field without origin — or which, at least, has no hter origin than language itself, language which ceaselessly calls into question all origins”( Barthe, 146) Image, Music, Text. “The Death of the Author”
After the death of the author, what is the author to do? After man has dissevered reading from reading the author, how does the author express himself?
“the scriptor no longer bears within him passions, humours, feelings, impressions, but rather this immense dictionary from which he draws a writing that can know no halt: life never does more than imitate the book, and the book itself is only a tissue of signs, an imitation that is lost, infinitely deferred”
Is this writing for the aesthetics of writing?
