Honestly, I found this essay a little hard to read, but I think that made it more interesting. Your summary helped in my understanding of it, but I think my effort in interpreting it only proved the authors point. I was only ever going to get out of it, my interpretation of it.
I think as a writer, once you write something and put it out there, it's almost no longer yours, but the readers and there is no way to ensure that they will take from it, what you want them to. They will make their interpretation based on their own life experiences, backgrounds, education, emotional intelligence and state of mind on the day of reading.
I dont think I agree so much with the 'death of the author' idea but like to see it more as almost an invisible relationship. An interaction of history and meaning behind what led the author to write the words he did with the history and meaning that the reader applies to what he is reading.
Honestly, I found this essay a little hard to read, but I think that made it more interesting. Your summary helped in my understanding of it, but I think my effort in interpreting it only proved the authors point. I was only ever going to get out of it, my interpretation of it.
I think as a writer, once you write something and put it out there, it's almost no longer yours, but the readers and there is no way to ensure that they will take from it, what you want them to. They will make their interpretation based on their own life experiences, backgrounds, education, emotional intelligence and state of mind on the day of reading.
I dont think I agree so much with the 'death of the author' idea but like to see it more as almost an invisible relationship. An interaction of history and meaning behind what led the author to write the words he did with the history and meaning that the reader applies to what he is reading.