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 transmi ....
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