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Critique of "Death of the Author"     The title to the story "The Death of an Author," by Roland Barthes,suggests this story may be a fictional novel about the story of an reasonsdeath. Perhaps one might pick it up, and skim the foreword in hopes that beneaththe cover of this volume there would be a mystery, a story of detectives, eye-witnesses, clues, and a puzzle for the reader to solve. Before I read thisstory, the title "The Death of an Author" brought to my supposition thebiography of a writer slowly drinking himself to death trying to finish thestory of his life, but the author would be stuck and depressed because his lifeis non a story as it is boring and repetitive. I have read such short storieswith similar titles by authors like Raymond Carver and others. I was movewhen I began to read "The Death of an Author" that a story with such a powerfultitle would be a wordy, whimper of a passage.     The a uthor Roland Barthes is a brilliant writer, he is able to weavephrases and create new uses for verbs, nouns and adjectives. Though he is abrilliant writer I have to befool that he was not a very bright man or that heat least has very little common sense immaterial of the literary world. If he wrotein a more simple, to the point modern style I would have read the story,absorbed its content, and would not have abandoned it a second look. The storycould be summarized in...