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Unpublished correspondence and texts.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