Critique Of "Death Of The Author"
Beginning of paper
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, e ....
Middle of paper
.... uses for verbs, nouns and adjectives. Though he is a
brilliant writer I have to assume that he was not a very bright man or that he
at least has very little common sense outside of the literary world. If he wrote
in 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 transm ....
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