Yes, Barthes talks about the death of the author, but even Barthes doesn't mean that the author is dead like Nietzsche's God. The author is there, sure.

是的，巴尔特谈到了作者已死的问题，但和尼采所说的上帝已死这个层面上的内容还是有所不同,作者肯定就在那里。

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What was important when reading, starting out with a new book, asking yourself, ? what question is the author trying to answer?

当你阅读时，什么是重要的，当你开始读一本新书，问问你自己，作者试图要解答的问题是什么？

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these are at least among the questions that Socrates or Plato, the author of the book, deliberately poses for us to consider.

就是这些问题,这些至少就是苏格拉底或柏拉图，本书作者，所特意提出让我们思考的问题。

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By the way, this isn't at all a question of the author not existing.

并且，这绝对不是有关作者不存在的问题。

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Foucault confronts this question in "What is an Author?"

在《什么是作者》中，福柯谈到了这些问题“

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It's a problem if we reject the police-like authority of authors, of whom we may have a certain suspicion on those grounds, when we certainly don't feel that way about Marx and Freud.

但若我们并不喜欢马克思和弗洛伊德，那么如果我们排斥警察，就好像因为对作者有所怀疑，而排斥作者权威的话，就有问题了。

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