The sudden proliferation of artificial intelligence in literary production has radically disrupted the traditional notion of authorship, originality, and creative agency. In this paper, I will return to Roland Barthes's classic essay “The Death of the Author” to argue that AI-produced literature represents the most tangible manifestation of poststructuralist theory to date. By engaging with the ideas of Michel Foucault’s “author-function,” Jacques Derrida’s theory of textual instability, and Walter Benjamin’s theory of mechanical reproduction, I will argue that AI does not merely kill the author but rather distributes authorship along algorithmic, institutional, and interpretive lines. By comparing and contrasting the poetics of Romanticism with AI-produced literature, I will show that artificial intelligence reconfigures authorship from a singular origin to a hybrid, procedural one. In doing so, AI represents not the “death of the author” but rather the “birth of algorithmic authorship.” Keywords: Authorship, AI-Generated Literature, poststructuralist theory, algorithmic authorship