The Author (n.) is never more than the instance of writing. Language knows a 'subject', not a 'person', and this subject, empty outside of the very enunciation which defines it, suffices to make language 'hold together' and to exhaust it.
The Author (n.) is not the father of a book. The author is born simultaneously with the book.
The Author (n.) is not the father of a work who thinks, suffers, and lives for the book in a relation of antecedence to his work, but rather is born simultaneously with the work.
The Author (n.) is one for whom writing begins only when he enters into his own death.
The Author (n.) is not so much a person, but a means of imposing limits on the proliferation of meaning.