What is the explanation that "the birth of a work means the death of the author"?

This theory actually tells us that when a work is written, the author has no right to interpret it.

This is a literary theory put forward by roland barthes.

French social critic and literary critic, whose early works expounded the arbitrariness of language structure and provided similar analysis for some popular cultural phenomena. Analysis of popular culture in myth, 1957). Including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism. His semiotic works make him an important representative of applying structuralism to the study of literature, cultural phenomena and general things.

He put forward the concept of zero-degree writing to oppose Sartre's theory that literature is involved in current affairs, thinking that literature, like all forms of communication, is essentially a symbol system, and using his text analysis method to eliminate verbal references in many works, trying to reveal the deep meaning and background of various factors in the text according to the organizational principles and internal structure of the works themselves. He summed up the three levels of the text, namely, the functional level, the behavioral level (character level) and the narrative level, so as to analyze readers' horizontal reading and vertical reading of the text. Deeply influenced by Swiss linguist Saussure.

1977 Elected Dean of Literature and Semiotics of French Academy. In the same year, his mother died, which was a great blow to Bart who was raised by his mother alone. He arranged his previous exposition and theory about photography into the last masterpiece "Ming Room". This book begins with his meditation on an old photo of his mother, including his theoretical discussion on the communication of photographic media and his mourning for his mother's thoughts. Three years after his mother died,1February 25, 980, when he was going home from a banquet hosted by Mitterrand, he was hit by a truck on the street in Paris. A month later, he died of his injuries on March 26th at the age of 64.