Roland Barthes' essay, The Death of the Author, argues that the author's intentions hinder interpretation. He posits that writing detaches the author from the text, suggesting that writing equates to a figurative death of the author. Barthes believes this disconnection is universal, with narration moving outside of practical functions. He asserts that the concept of an author is a modern creation, emerging from societal changes since the Middle Ages that exalted individualism, leading to the contemporary understanding of authorship as not intrinsic to a text's meaning.
To give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
As soon as a fact is narrated no longer with a view to acting directly on reality but intransitively, the disconnection occurs, the voice loses its origin.
What Barthes largely means by the playful metaphor of 'death' is that the author's intentions and consciousness are withdrawn.
The concept of an 'author' is a product of relatively recent times, emerging from the Middle Ages, discovering the prestige of the individual.
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