Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes - Hardcover

Roland Barthes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809082454 ISBN 13: 9780809082452

Publisher: Hill & Wang, 1977

Synopsis

Roland Barthes was one of France's leading literary critics and cultural commentators who died in 1980. This work, first published in 1977 has come to be seen as one of the author's key works. It is a kind of autobiography, both personal and theoretical, giving an account of his tastes, his childhood, his body then and later in life, his education, his passions and regrets. Other works by Roland Barthes include "Writing Degree Zero", "The Pleasure of the Text", "S/Z", "On Racine", "Elements of Semiology" and "Mythologies" and "Camera Lucida".

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From the Inside Flap:

"Barthes par Barthes is a genuinely post-modern autobiography, an innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre's The Words."—Hayden White, University of California

From the Back Cover:

"Barthes par Barthes is a genuinely post-modern autobiography, an innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre's The Words." (Hayden White)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0809082454
• ISBN 13: 9780809082452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186