THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR BY ROLAND BARTHES
Posted by PuJa on September 2, 2011TRANSLATED BY RICHARD HOWARD (FROM IMAGE, MUSIC, TEXT, 1977) In his story Sarrasine Balzac, describing a castrato disguised as a woman, writes the following sentence: ‘This was woman herself, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims, her instinctive worries, her impetuous boldness, her fussings, and her delicious sensibility.’ Who is speaking thus? Is it the […]