Pasticher or how to imitate to reinvent yourself

The author's name: we know how much it is, for the writer and his reader, a trademark, a signature. We know to what extent it adheres to a work, to what is sometimes called a style. But is writing a good one could possess? Wouldn't that be the illusion of a comforting autonomy and a plenitude? For all writing is shaped by influences and submitted to the intrusion of the words of others. There is, however, a parade for those who seek to assert at all cost their author's name by protecting themselves from the assaults of the other and their style: to imitate oneself to practice the self-pastiche, in order to reinvent oneself