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Re: Query re Barthes & Look at the Harlequins! (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Jeff Edwards, artist, writer, translator, scholar, editor
and Nabokophile,
is the founder of ZEMBLA the VN WWW site
http: //www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm.
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>From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
In the cases of both Barthes and Nabokov, the author is dead.
The best person to consult about the Barthes/DOA/Nabokov relationship would
be, I think, Maurice Couturier, who defended his thesis (on Nabokov) at the
Sorbonne in October 1976 before a five-member jury that included Roland
Barthes. (At that time neither Nabokov nor Barthes was dead, nor was
Couturier.)
I don't recall reading extended discussions of LATH! in Couturier's books,
but he certainly does mention Barthes' idea of "la mort de l'auteur," which
is almost diametrically opposed to his own theory of Nabokov's authorial
'tyranny.' See especially _Nabokov, ou la tyrannie de l'auteur_ (Seuil, 1993).
and Nabokophile,
is the founder of ZEMBLA the VN WWW site
http: //www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm.
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>From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
In the cases of both Barthes and Nabokov, the author is dead.
The best person to consult about the Barthes/DOA/Nabokov relationship would
be, I think, Maurice Couturier, who defended his thesis (on Nabokov) at the
Sorbonne in October 1976 before a five-member jury that included Roland
Barthes. (At that time neither Nabokov nor Barthes was dead, nor was
Couturier.)
I don't recall reading extended discussions of LATH! in Couturier's books,
but he certainly does mention Barthes' idea of "la mort de l'auteur," which
is almost diametrically opposed to his own theory of Nabokov's authorial
'tyranny.' See especially _Nabokov, ou la tyrannie de l'auteur_ (Seuil, 1993).