New Locations of the Author and New Auctoriality Figures: The Case of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Résumé
This papers examines the exchange between Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault about the author, pointing out the similarities but also the polemic dimension contained in Foucault's response. Assuming his idea of the necessity of identifying the new locations (emplacements) of the author, we examine Borges' oeuvre and the figures he provides of the author, in his texts, in a series of practices related to literature (anthologies, translations, editing), as well as the public figure he proposes in his own country and at an international level. The dynamics of national and international celebrity appear in his case as a construction partly determined by an active participation of the author.