S/Z (Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Roland Barthes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9871105592 ISBN 13: 9789871105595

Publisher: Siglo XXI de Espaņa Editores, S.A., 2005

Synopsis

La novela Sarrasine de Balzac le permite a Barthes llevar a cabo un proyecto largo tiempo acariciado: hacer el analisis de un relato corto en su totalidad. Dice el autor: No se expondra la critica de un texto, o una critica de este texto; se propondra la materia semantica de varias criticas (psicologica, psicoanalitica, tematica, historica, estructural); luego cada una podra intervenir, hacer oir su voz, que se escucha desde una de las voces del texto. Lo que se busca es dibujar el espacio estereografico de una escritura.

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About the Author

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.

Review

"Language was both a luxury and a discipline for Barthes. He pursued a subject through language until he cornered it, until its disguise fell away and it was revealed in a kind of epiphany. In his own way, he cleaned the face of Paris more thoroughly than Andre Malraux did when he ordered its buildings washed down to their original colors and arranged for lights to be played upon them. Musing on the kind of painting done by someone like Ingres, Barthes says that 'painters have left movement the amplified sign of the unstable . . . the solemn shudder of a pose impossible to fix in time . . . the motionless overvaluation of the ineffable.' This might also serve as his definition of classical French prose, and in order to escape its encroachment, Barthes prodded, squeezed and sniffed at language, like a great chef buying fruits and vegetables. He munched distinctions. His sentence rhythms were those of a man who talks with his hands." --Anatole Broyard

About this edition

• Publisher: Siglo XXI de Espaņa Editores, S.A.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9871105592
• ISBN 13: 9789871105595
• Binding: Hardcover