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  <title><![CDATA[Roland Barthes]]></title>
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  <default_description>Roland Barthes was one of France's leading literary critics and cultural commentators who died in 1980. This work, first published in 1977 has come to be seen as one of the author's key works. It is a kind of autobiography, both personal and theoretical, giving an account of his tastes, his childhood, his body then and later in life, his education, his passions and regrets. Other works by Roland Barthes include &quot;Writing Degree Zero&quot;, &quot;The Pleasure of the Text&quot;, &quot;S/Z&quot;, &quot;On Racine&quot;, &quot;Elements of Semiology&quot; and &quot;Mythologies&quot; and &quot;Camera Lucida&quot;.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Roland Barthes]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whenever I put my pen onto paper or I type on a computer, I often think of Roland Barthes.  For the sole reason he's a very entertaining writer and a great thinker as well. This book is his autobiography or memoir.  But it goes off the subject and comes back freely. Right now working on my own memoi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8057434">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you are into barthes' quirkiness you will enjoy this.  he writes caption headings and then lists about himself as an autobiography.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very handsome and engaging character.  Extremely dense; it will take a long time (for me) to read.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't Barthes' best work, but it is always interesting reading him and seeing how his criticism continually evolves.  The problem with this meta-autobiography is, like he says near the conclusion, &quot;an aphoristic tone hangs&quot; about it.  His reading/interest base is so broad that it lack...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27559065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite book by Barthes. Autobiography in the third person. Or to adapt a phrase by Barthes, the autobiographical without the autobiography. Barthes shows how thoroughgoing attention to one's mental habits -- with the lightest dose of self-deprecation -- can bring great rewards. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An &quot;autobiography&quot; by the man who deemed the author dead.  Where does that leave us?<br/><br/>Barthes is my favorite cultural/literary critic.  Though, I should probably reread this before I add any more comments.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have no idea why nobody reads barthes anymore in anthropology.  He's prettier than Foucault, less obtuse than Levi-Strauss and more current than Benjamin.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even the captions of the photographs in this book belie Barthes' playful, self-effacing style.  Beautifully self-indulgent; essential reading.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quietly became one of my favorite books ever this summer.<br/><br/>***This might be a required reading for every August from here on out for me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ive already forgotten most of what i learned from this book... have to read it again..]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[all of our lives are texts being written. we are fictional characters. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Rib Chop]]></body>
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