Roland Barthes
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born
November 12, 1915
died
March 25, 1980
gender
male
place of birth
Cherbourg, France
genre
Literature & Fiction, Philosophy
about this author
Roland Barthes 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.
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Mythologies by Roland Barthes avg rating 4.14 — 1,170 ratings — published 1957 17 editions |
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes avg rating 4.16 — 862 ratings — published 1980 11 editions |
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes avg rating 4.42 — 506 ratings — published 1977 14 editions |
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The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes avg rating 4.14 — 438 ratings — published 1383 12 editions |
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S/Z: An Essay by Roland Barthes avg rating 3.84 — 328 ratings — published 1970 13 editions |
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Image-Music-Text by Roland Barthes avg rating 3.95 — 194 ratings — published 1977 6 editions |
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Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes avg rating 3.88 — 194 ratings — published 1970 12 editions |
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Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes avg rating 3.73 — 126 ratings — published 1977 3 editions |
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Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes avg rating 3.88 — 113 ratings — published 1953 11 editions |
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Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes avg rating 4.16 — 99 ratings — published 1977 4 editions |
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."
— Roland Barthes
— Roland Barthes
"In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe."
— Roland Barthes
— Roland Barthes
"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me."
— Roland Barthes (The Pleasure of the Text)
— Roland Barthes (The Pleasure of the Text)
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