Authorship between presence and absence

Abstract

Language is no longer only a means that authors use to tell their truths about
their reality, it even creates that truth about that reality. Saussure and Derrida opened
Pandora’s box for a world of critics ready to foreground their activity while lowprofiling
that of writers; from the former’s perspective, nothing that we can know
through language and through text can be known as anything but language, as text.
From this point on, it is not difficult to understand why the very idea of author or writer
is one of the first things to be degraded