Re: BANANAFISH digest 246
Emily Moore (evmoore@hotmail.com)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:14:02 -0800 (PST)
jim wrote:
>Now, I have a question. Just what the heck **is** F and Z? We have a
>fictional author--Buddy Glass--writing a "real" history (real to him,
that
>is). But Buddy is himself a fictional character, so his "real" history
is, to
>us, fiction. How do we approach this work?
This reminds me of a class I took last semester where I studied Barthes
a little. Is anyone more familiar with the "vanishing author" theory
than I am? (We only read the Mythologies.) It seems it could have an
interesting application here, not that I've done this or even thought it
out very clearly. What in the stories that Buddy wrote are dependent on
specifically him being the author? What if, like Barhtes said (I think),
the author was not an entity that we took into account? No Buddy, no
Salinger, nobody at all...
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