# Roland Barthes #
Barthes reminds the reader in this essay that the idea of the “author” is:
A modern invention .
Roland Barthes wants literary criticism not to focus on the author in order to discover
The reader and writing
Who wrote"The Death of the Author" ?
Roland Barthes
According to Roland Barthes, “ a text is not a line of words realizing a single theological
meaning ( the message of the the Author –God ) but
a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings , none of them original , blend
Roland Barthes rejected the idea that literature and criticism should rely on
A single self-determining author , in control of his meaning s