...for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our...starting with the very identity of the body writing. No doubt it has always been that way. As soon as a fact is narrated no longer with a view to acting...

...Transparent Things, and Look at The Harlequins! 148 Notes 181 Se/ecf bibliography 213 231 Preface 'Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our...starting with the very identity of the body writing.' Thus Roland Barthes, in one of contemporary criticism's most famous threnodies, announces 'The Death...

...we must stop' This is the &ame point to which Barthes took us earlier when he wrote that writing i& that neutral composite. oblique space where our subject slips away the negative where all identity is lost."*2 This is precisely the point of decision where genuine interpretation, however forbidding,...

...Barthes points out, writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is the neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost.9 For Martin to be a part of a written text signifies the end of the autonomy of his centre. Indeed,...

...transcendence of gender. To this extent, A Birthday Book accords with Barthes's sense of writing as "that neutral, composite, oblique space where our...lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing."8 If we "lose" the identity of the "author," then clearly we must also lose a sense of the...

...for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our...starting with the very identity of the body writing. ['The death of the author'] It is time to consider, very briefly, the assault mounted by post-structuralist...

...19). In "The Death of the Author," Barthes described writing as "the destruction of every voice. . . . where our subject slips away, the negative where all...starting with the very identity of the body writing" (Image 142). The impersonalism of the poet in Eliot's theory is expanded in Barthes into the "requisite"...

...every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing. . . . The voice loses its origin, the author enters into his own death" (142). 3 The "author" dies...

...phenomenon of writing: [...J writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our...lost, starting with the very identity of the body of writing. [...J As soon as a fact is narrated [...] this Contemporary Literature 31.1 (Spring 1990l:...

...support of this view is that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our...lost, starting with the very identity of the body of writing. No doubt it has always been that way. As soon as a fact is narrated no longer with a view...