Death Of The Author

Question 1

Barthes, Death of the Author, 1968

Answer 1

“a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the meaning of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash”

Question 2

The Pillowman, McDonagh, 2003

Answer 2

Tupolski “Did they give you themes…? Like, ‘Write a story about a pony,’ or, ‘Write a story about some little kid who gets totally fucked up.’ Did they do that?”
Karturian “It was a theme of my own choosing.”

Question 3

Spark, Loitering with Intent, 1981

Answer 3

“I think there’s something the matter with you… Your ‘Warrender Chase’ is a thoroughly sick novel. Theo and Audrey Clairmont think it’s sick, it worried them terribly, correcting the proofs”

Question 4

Eliot, 1919

Answer 4

“it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality”

Question 5

Pillowman 2

Answer 5

“So, what, this is about stories with murdered children in? Do you think I’m trying to say, ‘Go out and murder children?’”

Question 6

Barthes, 1968

Answer 6

“life never does more than imitate the book, and the book itself is only a tissue of signs, an imitation that is lost, infinitely deferred.”

Question 7

Loitering 2

Answer 7

“I felt sure, now, that not only was Sir Quentin exerting his influence to suppress my ‘Warrender Chase’ but he was using, stealing, my myth.”