Yes it fucking does.

The Things They Carried conveys the experience of war far more profoundly than anything found in original list above.

Looks like a less fun, more generic and pretentious version of Beasts of Burden.

You’re misinterpreting (or violently simplifying) Barthes. Death of the Author has to do with the idea that the mind of the author is inaccessible as a guarantor for meaning. Since language and meaning is always in flux, the sense of a text is generated through a dialogue between text and reader, who necessarily must…