Kanske en riktig författare : Om Foucaults författarfunktion, pseudonymer och omvärderingar rörande Göran Tunströms Hallonfallet

Sammanfattning: This essay discusses how the reception and general view of an author and a work change due to consequent publications by said author. These changes are explained using Michel Foucault’s theory on the author function. The discussion centers around Göran Tunström’s book Hallonfallet, a book which initially was published under pseudonym but later re-released with the author’s proper name. The reader is then presented with a brief exposé of the reception of each of the two versions, which is then analyzed. This analysis serves as starting point for a wider discussion, referring to Tunström’s Hallonfallet as main point of reference, regarding the relation between author function, work and genre, examining how changed views concerning one of these three aspects may bring about revaluations of the others.