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8/2/2019 3:29:14 PM
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Writers of Offtopic, I pose a question:
What are your thoughts on “Death of the Author?”
I agree that it does in fact happen, but it should not take precedent over the author’s actual intentions.
“Death of the Author” is another way of explaining “projecting your own interpretation onto the Author’s work.”
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It honestly depends. Some works are supposed to have strict plots, with little but the theme open to debate. Some aren’t. For instance, I wrote a piece a few months ago titled Waking Dreams and it was very open ended. Main character referred to himself as He, the settings were relatively unknown, and the ending has more than a couple interpretations. This is the kinda thing you definitely want people to interpret. So, it really depends on whether you want a story in which they understand that there is an author with a set intent, or an up-for-interpretation experience.
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The are both important. The writer has little control over what the reader experiences, and the reader has no control over what the author actually intended to say. It seems, however that you are less concerned with “Death of Author” and more concerned with the presumptuous nature of humanity, of which I completely agree. Humanity is becoming more arrogant by the year.
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1 ReplyEdited by Speaker: 8/3/2019 2:53:35 PMYou have to be resigned to the fact that once you publish something you should be credited, but also realize your story is not yours anymore and numerous interpretations will change the meaning you had in the beginning. Tl:dr just cut the cord.
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2 RepliesIn the end it all comes down to the reader. You don’t want your story to be more of an inside joke than an invitation to an adventure. The writer being upset about being misinterpreted is stupid because he’s not the one reading his own book. It wasn’t written for only his eyes. If readers understand the message behind the book in a different way than the author intended, that’s just the authors own fault
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2 RepliesAll I gotta say is, the audience's POV/experience/interpretation of a story is much different than the author's, but matters no less.
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2 RepliesOne shouldn’t have to take precedent over the other.
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2 RepliesI have no clue what you are talking about.
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10 RepliesI'm a writer and have no idea what "death of the author" means or why it should and shouldn't be valid.
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People have every right to interpret any story in whatever way they want, but an author also has every right to explain what ideas or messages they were trying to convey, and I think readers should be conscious of that and not assume that the way they perceive a story is exactly what the author was trying to say.
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8 RepliesPersonally, I agree with it. The author’s interpretation shouldn’t undermine the message the reader gets out of it.
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5 RepliesDeath of narrator is a beautiful art form not used enough IMO. Death of Author on the other hand is a little sketchy. I tend to err on the side of not extending others works beyond what it was meant to do, even though i really like too.
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3 Repliesquick question what if the way I interpret the book is like, the hill I’m gonna die on, then the author posts something contradicting it on twitter and I have an existential crisis for a whole month
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1 ReplyI’m kinda stupid so I have no idea what you’re talking about, you may have to simplify it a little bit.
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29 Replies0-0 Ima need some clarification here bud, but from what I’ve seen it’s where the audience basically kind of, in a sense, defines what the author writes? If so, I don’t stand by it. Authors should always write what they want.
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2 RepliesEdited by Concordia Kitsune: 8/2/2019 4:02:05 PMVarvatos is a little confused. 1: if you mean “does the reader need to have a certain view to understand the author” then the answer is: it shouldn’t be written like that. It should be plain and understandable by all. 2: if you mean “should an author write a story where not only is it fiction, but can be interpreted differently to match a real life system/view”, then the answer is: It doesn’t matter. Tolkien wrote like that. Varvatos himself writes like that (sometimes). 3: if you mean “should an author write according to the views/bias of a reader”, Varvatos will say absolutely NO. If people have a problem with it, DO NOTHING. The author has 100% all the power to do exactly what he wants.
