Abstract

The objective of this article is double. On the one hand, to show that the last stage of Barthes' thought can be understood as the search for an "ethics of writing", whose model Kierkegaard represents, as Barthes himself intuits in the inaugural Lecture of the Chair of Literary Semiology of the Collège de France delivered in 1977, in which he refers to the Danish author as a paradigm of the rupture of the alienating structure of the language. On the other hand, to think of the first Kierkegaardian "authorship" in terms of figurative semiotics. This semiotics seeks to reach the limit of what can be said, provoking a revolution in language, based on the use of different rhetorical resources that question the univocal identity of the author and its privileged place as authority "giver" of meaning, thus giving great relevance to the figure of the reader.