I want to ask what is the philosophy or what can we say was Roland Barthes' opinion in "From Work to Text" .'From Work to Text' by Roland Barthes.

His philosophy is to support or initiate a shift in
literay study from work, which is the objects of literary study (novels, plays, poems,
and the written word in general), to text, which is a complex of relations among
readers, writers and critics as well as a complex of activities which include, reading,
writing, intertextuality and production.  In other words, "work" is an object or product
and "text" is the production, consumption and inter-relations of that
product. 

This shift from work to text, comes from Marxist,
Freudian and Structuralist background.  The Marxist influence is the shift from product
(commodity) to production (labor value, self-production). The concept of "text" is
complex. From the Freudian (or Lacanian) influence, we get the "work" as that which is
displayed - like a painting - and the "text" as the act of painting, relations
among/between other paintings, paintings and the methodology of art.  This would be the
visual equivalent of intertextuality. Intertextuality is simply the relationships
amongst all text, held together by metaphor, pun, metonymy, allegory, and direct
reference.

Work is a thing.  Text is a doing.  Work is an
object.  Text is creating and engaging objects. So, Barthes' philosophy here, is to
shift literariness from objects (in a sense, the actual books themselves) to the
relations among them - intertextuality.  By doing so, Barthes aims to put the production
of meaning in the hands of the reader.  Barthes' sees this as giving the reader an equal
share with the author in producing, or interpreting, the meaning of a work.  There is
also an anti-patriarchal and anti-"author"-ity here.  By liberating the work from the
grips of the author, the reader becomes an equal participant in the process: to join the
reader and writer in a single signifying process. 

To sum
up, Barthes aims to break away from the imposed authority of the author and to focus
more on the production and relations of literature (this includes reading) instead of
focusing on the objects of that production.