Roland Barthes - Death of the Author

why does the reader have more freedom with Barthes' theory?

Because since no "person" owns the text, the language is open to ongoing creation

where are the texts of a writing inscribed, according to Barthes?

The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost; a text's unity lies not in its origin but in its destination.

temporal difference between author as owner and language as owner

author does not "give birth to" book writing designates exactly what linguists, referring to Oxford philosophy, call a performative, a rare verbal form (exclusively given in the first person and in the present tense) in which the enunciation has no other content (contains no other proposition) than the act by which it is uttered

what happens as soon as a fact is no longer narrated with a view to acting directly on reality

functions as a practice of symbol, the author loses their voice

what has happened to modern literature, according to Barthes?

has attached the greatest importance to the person of the author

if the author is not the owner of his work, what is?

language

language knows a ____ , not a person

language knows a subject, not a person