Yes, Barthes talks about the death of the author, but even Barthes doesn't mean that the author is dead like Nietzsche's God. The author is there, sure.

是的，巴尔特谈到了作者已死的问题，但和尼采所说的上帝已死这个层面上的内容还是有所不同,作者肯定就在那里。

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Nietzsche announced the death of God and Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor asserted that when God is dead all things are permitted.

尼采说上帝死了,陀思妥耶夫斯基的宗教法庭审判官声称,当上帝死亡时一切事物都是允许的

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