...sublime and comic and whose profound ridiculousness indicates precisely the truth of writing, the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them. Did he wish to express himself,...

...source" but a "paper I," composed of a "plurality of texts. " 45 Never able to originate, "the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them. Did he wish to express himself, he ought at least to know that the inner 'thing' he thinks...

...clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture ... the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest in any one of them. Did he wish to express himself,...

...the anonymous blending and clashing of tissued texts concludes with a clash of its own: "The writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the other" (146). Not an "it" in the text, the writer, just for a moment in Barthes's text,...

...innumerable centres of culture. . . . His [the author's] only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them.1 Whilst Barthes's remarks here are addressed to literature, they clearly have prima-facie...

...then explicitly denied the writer — any writer — the very possibility of creativity: 'the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...never original. His only power is to mix writings', those produced by earlier writers, all of whom suffered from the same mistaken idea, each thinking...

...them original, blend and clash', and the writer's 'only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them'.2 1 have tried to 'stage' my narrative as a scene of many writings coming together, as...

...gesture that is always anterior, never original. I lis only power is to mix writings, tu counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them. Did he wish to express himself, he ought at least to know that the inner 'thing' he thinks...

...variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash'.83 The truth of writing is that the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them.84 In place of the message...

...are all prefabricated and cliched. They certainly corroborate Barthes's contention that "the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as to never rest with any one of them. Did he wish to express himself,...