Return of the Author Book

	Introduction	1
I	The Life of the Author
1	Proust on Sainte-Beuve's Method	15
2	Proust on Sainte-Beuve on Baudelaire	21
3	Balzac's "Vulgar Genius"	25
4	Sainte-Beuve: The Critic Who Was Never Right	29
5	Proust against the Deeper Self	39
6	Proust's Biographism	47
7	The [ Is an Other	51
8	Valery as Precursor	55
9	Valery as Biographer	59
10	Valery's Pure Self	63
11	Tel Quel and the Author	67
12	Probing the Unconscious	71
13	Sartre, the Writer, and the Reader	77
14	Sartre: All Is to Be Done	81
15	Sartre and Author(ity)	85
16	Critical Methods and Literature	89
17	Starobinski and Method	95
18	Barthes and the Author	101
19	Barthes's Paper Author	107
20	Barthes as Biographer	113
21	An Array of Selves	119
22	Who Speaks in the Text?	125
23	Eliot and Biography	129
24	Writing about the Author	135
II	The Author's Life of the Author
25	Sartre: The Imposture of Childhood and the Birth of Literature	141
26	Malraux: A Passion for Greatness. A Religion of Fraternity	155
27	Ionesco Childhood and Light, Literature and the World on the First Day of Creation	167
28	Barthes: The Return of the Author to the Text	191
	Notes	205
	Works Cited	213
	Index	217