Abstract
Bakhtin has analyzed the dialogic relationships between texts. It is a dialogue that appears as semantic responses
between subjects. Things born in the boundary of texts is known as "the event of the life of the text". I have
conducted a critical analysis of the theory of another person and of the conclusions by Bakhtin. I have proposed a
different explanation of the conclusion, based on the internal side of my-self, and as a result, developed a concept
called a "self-text". When a reader has a dialogue with an author's text, the reader exchanges meanings with the
author using this self-text. Bakhtin's theory of the life of a text relates to the reading theory of Iser. He has described
that a book becomes a read book because it has a two level structure, one is the meaning written in the text, and the
other, is the meaning that the reader received. The work of an editor concerns exchanging the meaning in the
boundary of texts. A mature book is a book that guarantees the dialogue.
