Alex Ciorogar, Ascensiunea autorului în epoca globalizării digitale, Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2025, 418 p.

Abstract

Alex Ciorogar’s book, published in 2025, takes on the complex task of sifting through theories of authorship that have emerged on the academic scene over the past fifty years. Ciorogar notices the strange place that the author occupies today in the literary field. After the death of the author, consecrated in the essays of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, the academic world seems to have gotten stuck, unable to go further and propose new theories. Although the two philosophers’ works are crucial, they have been “more quoted than read” (2), Ciorogar says, arguing that a new approach is needed, which requires “the death of the myth of the author’s return” (12).