Roland Barthes





Roland Barthes

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born
in Cherbourg, France
November 12, 1915

died
March 25, 1980

gender
male

genre


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.


Average rating: 4.07 · 22,937 ratings · 998 reviews · 134 distinct works · Similar authors
Camera Lucida: Reflections ...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 6,875 ratings — published 1980 — 36 editions
Mythologies
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 5,549 ratings — published 1957 — 51 editions
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 2,155 ratings — published 1977 — 36 editions
The Pleasure of the Text
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 1,879 ratings — published 1386 — 32 editions
S/Z
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,342 ratings — published 1970 — 13 editions
Image, Music, Text
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions
Empire of Signs
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 1970 — 18 editions
Writing Degree Zero
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 534 ratings — published 1953 — 20 editions
Elements of Semiology
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions
Mourning Diary
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions
More books by Roland Barthes…
“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
Roland Barthes

“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

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