From the Foucault, Brunn and Chartier's thoughts, we analyze the emergency of the modern author. In relation to history, Foucault shows as the authorial figure was invented through a tram of events that goes of the responsabilization of the discourse's agent to the function of reference. He indicates the characteristics of the name of the author, designating that it has for function to delimit, to classify and to organize the universe of the discourses. This name is one of the functional principles that conduct our relation with knowing and with literature on behalf of a power and of an authority.
Author; Discourse; Modernity; Emergency