"Death of the Father would deprive literature of……" — Roland Barthes

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures.… - Roland Barthes
"Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?"

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