How does the death of the author reader affect how   novels are anything is  written?  How is  the novel anything  written once the   author reader is   proclaimed assumed dead?  Barthes’ work on the subject, being criticism, becomes one of the   texts novels that make up the plurality of   texts novels that is the postmodern/poststructuralist poststructuralist/postmodern   author reader .   A   novel text and, subsequently, the  author reader of a novel are particularly difficult things to place in a poststructuralist world because the very form of   the traditional novel a novel a bad novel leans towards a reality, which would make it a  text novel with limited readings.   Avant-garde   novels un-novels comprised of mostly   signifiers signifiedsd (which forces the reader author into a   more less active role) that Barthes would seem to suggest as an ideal poststructuralist text in his S/Z do not follow the form of the novel.  These avant-garde texts would be more texts of bliss than pleasure.   Texts of bliss, as a specific part of Pleasure, disturb the reader’s cultural assumptions.   The disturbance of the cultural assumption that  that a novel with have a noticable plot that an essay will be sensibly written , for example, leads the   reader author to work   and to become the producer.   Cultural assumptions do, of course, define what   a novel anything is.  A   novel chicken can only be defined in such a way that conforms to the cultural view of a  novel chicken (that is, by definition, if  a novel anything cannot be understood as a novel then it is not strictly   a novel that thing ).  A   novel text , therefore, must be a   text novel of pleasure because a true   text novel of bliss, a true avant-garde   work text , does not have the cultural assumptions and references necessary for it to be defined as anything more than avant-garde (much less be culturally accepted as a novel).
		Next