Author's Guide

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Reading books and discussing authors and readers.

The relationship between author and reader arises through text. If there were no writer who wrote and no reader of the reader, then there would be no relationship between author and reader. There would then be nothing that would have been written and nothing that could be read - there would be no text. The connection, or also, the meeting place between author and reader, takes place on the level of the text, the work, the writing. While the author has the function of writing and the reader does that of reading, the text does both - it has to be written as well as read, otherwise it does not become an event, can not unfold and come to life.

A modern "author" exists only since the end of the Middle Ages. Since the individual has awakened and positioned himself personally - and thus vulnerable - in the room. Before and in the Middle Ages there were mainly narrators. And not a few of us, the traditions are still known to us from this period, bear no name. Stories and narratives - fairy tales, legends, myths - were recounted - of course orally - and were expressions of events of a people, a tribe or a system of rule. Today is an "author" (Latin actor), generally understood, the one who authored a literary work. He is the "author", the "creator" of his written words and, if it goes well, a literary writer. 

The term "literature" comes from the Latin and means derived from "literary" (the letter), the alphabet, the language art. In this concept, the art of writing meets through the vehicle of language - the writing - and that of speech - the spoken word. Today, we generally speak simply of "texts" (which, for example, make, portray or convey literature). The term "text" goes back to the Latin "Textus" borrowed from late Middle High German time and means "tissue", "mesh", "connection". In this word, then, on the level of semantics, there is already the open and movable gesture of writing.

So the word network that makes up a literary text must be read by a reader. And what does "reading" mean? "Reading" means, according to the etymological dictionary, "scattered around collecting and gathering together". This meaning makes it clear that many things "read" - more than words. Even landscapes can be read, the facial expressions of a person, moods, paintings - and so in familiar situations we also speak of someone being an open book in which we are allowed to read.

Today, hardly any texts are published without an author, without a clearly verifiable author, a creator, a person in charge, ie given to the public. Author and text belong together. And yet, modern literature is wrestling with the relationship between text and author. Who or what is it? Does the author express himself through his text - or does the text express something about the author?

Will the author be visible through the text? Or does the text become visible through an author? Modern literature is very cautious at this point. It almost exclusively tries to treat the text as a work of art and as such a subject of investigation. Of course, the author is not entirely unimportant - but a literary scholar has a good job of testing whether he can make a statement through a text about an author. Even the question of who speaks in a text - author, narrator or if necessary an ego (as well as other figures) - is followed very carefully.

So what happens to an author when he publishes his text? "Does he die then - as Roland Barthes (1915-1980) proclaimed this end of the sixties in France? Is the source, the author of the result, of the text separating? And what might arise from this? Literary criticism still does not know anybody else in literature today than the one who created the literature. It tries - if anything - to explain something through authorship. Roland Barthes points out that there is another direction. He says, "The unity of a text is not in its source, but in its destination." And who is that, if not the reader?

An author lives and works in his network. Place and time are also determining factors for him. What he writes recurs - in some way - from his life. His thinking, feeling, acting - his knowledge, his tasks, his abilities etc. What he gives to the public is his text. Whether it's a poem, a novel or a drama, a factual text, an essay, an essay or something else entirely. He hands over what he has written to the public - in a book, a magazine, the Internet or in any other way. The text then remains static. Like a rock in the surf. He just stays. Whether the author turns away from him, evolves, dying or forgetting.

And this text, which is now simply there, offers itself publicly, is, if it goes well, found by a reader, discovered and read - and thereby relieved of its statics. The text awakens through the reader, becomes flexible and begins its own life. For a reader stands, lies or sits in a network just like an author. Maybe in another. So the text connects networks. And he creates a new movement, a new conversation. Written, oral or by. Thanks, everyone....