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