"Oeuvres complètes, tome 1: Livres, textes, entretiens, 1942-1961: Tome 1, 1942-1961" ist eine Sammlung von Werken des französischen Philosophen und Literaturkritikers Roland Barthes. Dieser erste Band umfasst die Jahre von 1942 bis 1961...

Der Semiologe Roland Barthes«: diese Formulierung ist inzwischen ein Gemeinplatz geworden, obwohl sie eher Ausdruck einer Verlegenheit denn aufschlußreiche Beschreibung ist. Charakterisiert sie doch ein facettenreiches Werk durch eine...

»Der Leser findet hier die Mehrzahl der Interviews versammelt, die Roland Barthes in französischer Sprache gegeben hat.« So lautet der erste Satz der kurzen Vorbemerkung, die der Herausgeber diesem postum erschienenen Band beigegeben...

»Nicht aus Lust am Provozieren sind Sade, Fourier und Loyola in ein und demselben Buch zusammengestellt worden, sondern weil alle drei Klassifikatoren, Sprachbegründer waren: der verfemte Schriftsteller begründete eine Sprache des...

These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis...

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture,...

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and 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...

In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes¿s career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and...

Unpublished correspondence and texts. This volume provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. Translated by Jody Gladding. *Also appeared in Nov/Dec Buyer's Notes* von Barthes, Roland

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book-one of the most significant...

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. von Barthes, Roland

An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period of three...