Abstrakt
The following contribution intends to present the author and authorship as phenomena closely linked to theological thought and visual culture. The main objective is to problematize the concept of the author as an abstract entity (or the reader as its counterpart).
As an introduction, the importance of the visual turn in connection to mediality and how we understand the world will be discussed. The question of ""Who speaks"" prevailing in the oral domain has gradually become overshadowed by the one of ""Who creates"" typical of the visual sphere enabling room for an entity called the creator or the author.
The paper will mainly focus on the theory of the ""spiritual"" (das Geistige) developed by Vassily Kandinsky in his Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911). In particular, concepts related to visuality and abstraction will be foregrounded, e.g. synaesthesia as a method (not as a rhetorical figure), visual rhythm, inner necessity, or the spiritual.
As a conclusion, the theoretical concepts of Kandinsky will be compared and contrasted with the concept of the author in literary theory (narratology). The importance of visuality in literature will be examined and a question of how it influences our author/reader experience will be addressed.