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                                                                                                                                                                        On the Concept of "Implied Author"

1. According to Wayne Booth, "[the] implied author is always distinct from the 'real man' -- whatever we may take him to be -- who creates a superior version of himself, a 'second self,' as he creates his work" (The Rhetoric of Fiction [Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961], 151). "As he writes," Booth argues, the author "creates not simply an ideal impersonal 'man in general' but an implied version of 'himself' that is different from the implied authors we meet in other men's works" (70 f.).

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