Hi Richard,
This is indeed some sort of paraphrase from S/Z which is first published in
France in 1973, although your paraphrase is slightly wrong. Actually it has
to be the other way around, not: no more writers, only readers; but: no more
readers, only writers. Or better: no more readerly texts, only writerly
texts. Although this sound too much like a pamphlet to be entirely true.
See particularly the fist section of the book: Evaluation.
For example:
"What evaluation finds is precisely this value: what can be written
(rewritten) today: the writerly [scriptible]. Why is the writerly our value?
Because the goal of a literary work (of literature as work) is to make the
reader no longer a consumer, but a producer of the text. Our literature is
characterized by the pitiless divorce which the literary institution
maintains between the producer of the text and its user, between its owner
and its customer, between its author and its reader." Page 4 of the English
translation by Richard Miller.
It is a very interesting book and I can recommend it strongly.
Greetings,
Martijn
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