How does the death of the affect how written? How is written once the is dead? Barthes� work on the subject, being criticism, becomes one of the that make up the plurality of that is the . A and, subsequently, the of a novel are particularly difficult things to place in a poststructuralist world because the very form of leans towards a reality, which would make it a with limited readings. Avant-garde comprised of mostly (which forces the into a active role) that Barthes would seem to suggest as an ideal poststructuralist text in his S/Z do not follow the form of the novel. These avant-garde texts would be more texts of bliss than pleasure. Texts of bliss, as a specific part of Pleasure, disturb the reader�s cultural assumptions. The disturbance of the cultural assumption that , for example, leads the to work become the producer. Cultural assumptions do, of course, define what is. A can only be defined in such a way that conforms to the cultural view of a (that is, by definition, if cannot be understood as a novel then it is not strictly ). A , therefore, must be a of pleasure because a true of bliss, a true avant-garde , does not have the cultural assumptions and references necessary for it to be defined as anything more than avant-garde (much less be culturally accepted as a novel).