Roland barthes

'''Roland Barthes''' (1915 - 1980) was a French rhetor, semiotician, and literary critic, famed for his essay [http://www.deathoftheauthor.com/death-of-the-author.pdf The Death of the Author].

== The Death of the Author ==
Barthes published "The Death of the Author," probably his most famous work, in 1967. In it, he explains that the author and creator of a text are not the same, and that the creator of a text should never take precedence over the text itself.