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  <name><![CDATA[Roland Barthes]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;Roland Barthes&lt;/b&gt; was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes' work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Cherbourg</hometown>  <born_at>11/12/1915</born_at>  <died_at>03/25/1980</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Mythologies]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Lover's Discourse: Fragments]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Pleasure of the Text]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[S/Z: An Essay]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Image-Music-Text]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Empire of Signs]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Elements of Semiology]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Writing Degree Zero]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Roland Barthes]]></title>
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