"The Death of the Author" is one of the most controversial issues in the literary world in the later half of the 20th century. The author is traditionally considered as a creator of a work. In that sense, the author is the actual agent of meaning, and he is responsible for the production of the sequence of events as a whole. In general, he represents the governing consciousness of the work as a whole, and he is the source of power, intelligence, and even moral standards. In the 1060s, however, a new concept of the author was suggested that he is the effect of the language on the reader rather than a subject`s consciousness or persona. Joyce`s fiction has once supported a modernist myth: the myth of the narrator`s impersonality, which is however, only an illusion. For example, in his polystylism and parodic narrating manner of Ulysses, the narrator`s structural presence cannot be accepted as the rationale for the book`s arrangement. John Fowles also continually experimented a new concept of authorshipa as existence and writing in the sequence of his novels. He presents in his works the passivity of the authorial process, its reliance upon combinations of a cultural repertoire of conventions. All of these explanations are depended upon Barthes, Foucault, and Joyce, all of whom argued the conversion of the author from an absolute entity to a textual strategy.