Roland Barthes - Hardcover

Barthes, Roland (Translated By Richard Howard)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809082454 ISBN 13: 9780809082452

Publisher: Hill And Wang, New York City, NY, 1977

Synopsis

First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist's most original work--a brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to reveal Roland Barthes's tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets.

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Review:

"[Barthes] realizes that his greatest achievement is not what he is, nor even what he has done, but rather "how he has done it. So his self-portrait is not primarily a recollection of events or earlier works. It is, rightly, a delineation of the method rather than the man. And so persuasive or provocative are its assertions and associations that it is impossible to read this portrait of a style passively."--Jacob Stockinger, "San Francisco Review of Books

About the Author:

ROLAND BARTHES was born in 1915. A French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic, he influenced the development of schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, and post-structuralism. He died in 1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill And Wang, New York City, NY
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0809082454
• ISBN 13: 9780809082452
• Binding: Hardcover