abstract:This paper argues that the study of authorial image management should give more attention to the way literary fiction participates in shaping the author’s public image. This point has not been sufficiently taken into account in studies of author celebrity or persona making. These studies, to a great extent, focus on extraliterary activity. From another direction, some critics in narrative studies have given place to ways in which fiction shapes judgements of the author. However, these approaches, by and large, subordinate the author’s image to a more general approach to the interpretation of texts. Such approaches do not give enough room to the way some people read in order to learn about the author. The paper, therefore, suggests a method of reading fiction (alongside paratexts) for authorial image with a focus on the importance of the conflation and interconnection between characters and authors. The special value of characters who are authors is explained. As an example of this emphasis, the paper analyses how authors present themselves as old. The paper briefly analyses how Philip Roth highlights his age circa the publication of Exit Ghost (2007), to then present a reading of Nicole Krauss circa the publication of The History of Love (2005), who is associating herself with old age despite in fact being in her early thirties. Both authors depict elderly author-characters in order to shape their images. As a whole, the paper offers an emphasis on reading novels and especially character in the context of literary celebrity and authorial image.

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作者角色和作者公众形象：菲利普·罗斯和妮可·克劳斯的老年主角

摘要：本文认为作者形象管理的研究应更多​​地关注文学小说对作者公众形象塑造的参与方式。这一点在作者名人或人物塑造的研究中没有得到充分考虑。这些研究在很大程度上侧重于文学外活动。从另一个方向来看，叙事研究中的一些批评家已经让位于小说塑造作者判断的方式。然而，总的来说，这些方法使作者的形象从属于一种更一般的文本解释方法。这种方法没有给某些人阅读的方式留出足够的空间来了解作者。论文，因此，提出了一种阅读小说（连同副文本）作者形象的方法，重点是人物和作者之间的融合和相互联系的重要性。解释了作为作者的角色的特殊价值。作为这种强调的一个例子，本文分析了作者如何将自己表现得像老样子。这篇论文简要分析了菲利普·罗斯如何在《退出幽灵》（2007 年）出版前后突出他的年龄，然后介绍妮可·克劳斯在《爱的历史》（2005 年）出版前后的阅读，她将自己与老年联系在一起，尽管事实上三十出头。两位作者都描绘了年长的作者角色，以塑造他们的形象。总体而言，本文强调阅读小说，尤其是在文学名人和作者形象的背景下阅读人物。