Ok here's what I'm thinking for the final essay:
I want to see how Foucault's 'author function' functions in the short story "El gaucho insufrible" by Roberto Bolaño. I am taking a class with Rita de Grandis right now about Latin American short stories and the whole approach is based on looking at the author's biography and how we can see the biographical elements influencing the text. Furthermore, the text is strongly based on a Borges short story, thus there is a huge amount of intertextuality. So I thought it would be interesting to explore how we still use the author function to examine a literary text.
I will also look at "The Death of the Author" by Barthes and I plan to look at Barthes' From Work to Text", along with some other scholarly articles.
