The Cellar - View Single Post - Authorial Intent / Authority vs. the Reader's Interpretation

xoxoxoBruce · 06-05-2007, 11:04 PM

The reader can interpret the book to mean any damn thing they want. But if a hundred people read it and most agree on what they got from it, then the author tells you it's about something else, it's not well written.

So an author that comes along and says, hey everybody it really means this, he's admitting failure to communicate. Without sweat.

06-05-2007, 11:04 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The reader can interpret the book to mean any damn thing they want. But if a hundred people read it and most agree on what they got from it, then the author tells you it's about something else, it's not well written. So an author that comes along and says, hey everybody it really means this, he's admitting failure to communicate. Without sweat. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.