Implied author

The implied author is a concept from the literature, coined by Wayne C. Booth. According to a statement he described the image that can make the reader through the reading of this text by the author. It thus represents a mediating authority between the actual author and the narrator

Booth leaves in its definition, however, some questions open because it does not determine the implied author uniform. On the one hand he says that the implicit author is a building designed by the author in writing self-portrait, on the other hand, one for him and the reader- generated image by the author also included.

The counterpart to the implied author on the side of the reader is the implicit reader.

The term is in literary studies by no means uncontroversial, Gérard Genette believes that with the implied author in truth either, the real author, or the overall meaning of the work is meant. In both cases, it is unnecessary to introduce an additional instance of how the implied author.