Reaction Essay: "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes, a noted writer and believer of structuralism, outlines the basis for his structuralist theory in his text "The Death of the Author". Barthes' concern at this point in his career is with the relationship between the author and the writing and this is reflected in his essays entitled "The Death of the Author". Barthes' divides his argument into two parts. The first is the author who exists before the book was ever written, thinks, suffers, lives for it. Consequently, the author is always considered as a father to his literary child. Second, Barthes considers that now the m…