This article tries to revise the poststructural idea of the "death of the author" as well as
identify the features of the postmodern author. There made an attempt to mark out the new
structural principal in the postmodern text - "the author's mask". The author considers it as a
transformed type of the traditional "author's image" that is deprived of the author's intention. This article aimed at overcoming the usual opposition between the poststructural idea of the
"death of the author" and traditional approach to the author.