Writing Degree Zero

Barthes, Roland; Susan Sontag (Preface); Lavers, Annette and Colin Smith (Trans.)

ISBN 10: 0374521395 / ISBN 13: 9780374521394

Published by Hill & Wang Pub, 1990

About this Item

Some signs of age on the book's cover and spine -- colour sings of age on the front cover and spine, and traces of impression on the back's cover, but the book is overall in a very good condition structurally. On about 3-4 pages, an occasional paragraph is highlighted with a pencil on the margins of the paragraph: none of it is significant or obstructs the text/the text's reading.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1705606599065

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing Degree Zero
• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374521395
• ISBN 13: 9780374521394
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

In his first book, French critic Roland Barthes defines the complex nature of writing, as well as the social, historical, political, and personal forces responsible for the formal changes in writing from the classical period to recent times.

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.