In Roland Barthes essay, Death of the Author, published in, Image Music Text, (Fontana Press) he writes of a new style of writing developing from postmodernism / surrealism. The author writes in a style that removes himself from the text by writing using the first person and present tense. Barthes writes that to give a text an Author imposes limits on the text.
The Death of the Author, by Roland Bartes
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