should we really kill the author?

answers1: No.
answers2: No I think the author plays as much of a role as the persona
they take on (that of the narrator). Knowing author's backgrounds can
help with figuring out their message or the reason why something
happened in a plot.
answers3: no
answers4: I wouldn't like people to read anything I've written and
consciously compare it to anything they might know about me. <br>
I don't consider the author when I read any type of text. If the text
is good enough you should be lost in it and not have to consider the
author. Unless of course it's autobiographical. Alternatively I think
that any character in the text should stand on their own and when
reading, you should forget that it was actually written by someone.
answers5: Up to a point, yes. In the weak form (the strong form being
that the author is totally irrelevant) it's simply a stance that the
author's intended meaning isn't a privileged "correct" one that trumps
other possible ways to analyse the text. <br>
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Objections to "the author is dead" are also largely misplaced, since
the reality is that we routinely interpret books on that basis (i.e.
without knowledge of the author's intention). This is especially the
case with older books where the historical context isn't widely known.
For instance, Charles Kingsley's "The Water Babies" is widely read
without the knowledge that it was a complicated social and scientific
satire. Stella Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm" is a detailed satire on a
number of specific novels and authors of the time (such as Mary Webb)
but is mostly read as an entertaining rustic comedy mostly without
that knowledge.
answers6: um.. no. y do that?
answers7: I personally don't think so, but why don't you try?
answers8: No, the text won't make sense without realising the authors
intentions.
answers9: I think its important to have some insight into the author
if we really want to recognise his talent and beliefs i.e Kurt
Vonnegut in Slaughter-house Five............a book about the horrors
of Dresden bombing, without the knowledge that Vonnegut was present at
the bombings one could easily label the book immature and maudlin