Mis on kollektiivne autor?
What is plural author?

Summary/Abstract: A plural author is not an unknown neither a new form of authorship, yet, what emerges in descriptions of contemporary plural authors, is an emphasis towards counter-cultural, towards undermining of the traditional author figure. One could say that this often disregards the productive aspects of collective authorship and reduces the plural author into nothing more than a group of critics for the Author, into an illustration to the Death of the Author. Yet many plural authors have been very productive, influential and even institutionally recognised, also censored – it means that they have possessed the qualities of the Author in a way which cannot be reduced barely to the level of parody or deconstruction. In his essay “What is Author?” Michel Foucault also mentions some plural authors such as Homer and, from the 20th century, Nicolas Bourbaki. Because of what is stated above and even more because of the great influence of his essay, I use some tools from Foucault’s toolbox to analyse the author’s positions of plural authors with the purpose of closely observing the aspects into which the plural authors fit and how they fill author’s functions, as well as the aspects which conflict with the latter. As the objects for this analysis I take three quite well known plural authors – Luther Blissett (Italian writer and media persona), Nicolas Bourbaki (French mathematician) and Subcomandante Marcos (Mexican guerilla-leader, writer and essayist).

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