How is it possible that even when I know nothing about a novelist’s life I find, on reading his or her book, that I am developing an awareness of the writer that is quite distinct from my response to the work?
At the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks explores why, despite the Death of the Author, a reader can still get a sense of the writer behind a work.
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